Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been brought against G.M. by victims-and dependents of victims-injured in accidents involving Corvairs built in the 1960-63 model years. Almost all claim that the car's rear axle (since redesigned) gave the Corvair an inherent instability and a tendency to oversteer, resulting sometimes in fatal accidents. G.M. won the first suit last month by convincing a California jury that a fatal accident involving a 1960 Corvair was caused by driver inexperience; but the jury's decision was not so much a vindication of the car as a condemnation of the driver. A second case...
...more that doctors learn about head injuries, the more concerned they are that not nearly enough is being done to protect accident victims from the long-lasting, possibly paralyzing or fatal effects of insidious brain damage. The main reason is that gross injuries to the brain often go undetected and even unsuspected...
...however, Britain's House of Lords (acting as the country's highest court) discovered a fatal flaw in an Irish arrest warrant. According to an 1851 British law, the warrant required endorsement by an officer of the Royal Irish Constabulary, the British-paid police force that was replaced in 1922 by Ireland's own Garda Siochana (Peace Guard). Because the old constabulary was defunct, the House of Lords ruled that Irish warrants were no longer valid in Britain...
...scheduled to be the longest space flight on record. It almost became one of the shortest. And the threat to the ambitious mission became doubly dramatic as the fortunes of Gemini 5 oscillated wildly last week between disaster and promise, perfection and near-fatal flaw...
...hour of 1 a.m. Instead of returning home, she says, she suffered a migraine headache and went to a hospital. During her absence, something even odder happened to her millionaire husband, Miami and Houston Financier Jacques Mossier, 69. He was bludgeoned and stabbed 39 times. The results were fatal. According to Miami police, Mossier left a note: "If Mel and Candace don't kill me first, I'll kill them." While Candace fled to the Mayo Clinic for more migraine therapy and treatment for what she calls "too many red corpuscles," the Miami cops extradited Melvin Powers...