Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contractors, NASA reported, delivered capsules with more than 500 defects, and spare parts that were more than 50% defective. On Mercury's six manned flights, there was an average of ten equipment malfunctions-any one of which might have resulted in fatal failures. Only emergency backup systems and the skill of the astronauts in manual control saved the missions...
Cornell has developed a case of chronic inconsistency, a disturbing disease which struck last Saturday in the presence of the Colgate Red Raiders. During the week several injuries have also developed at Ithaca. These might normally be fatal, but this week's opponent is a rather weak Lehigh. Look for Gary Wood to salvage enough of a team to carry the Big Red through, but do not expect much of a runaway...
...safe to be a boss? Are executives more subject than their subordinates to early and fatal heart attacks? Medical men, bemused by the number of young executives who made the obituary columns, used to think the danger was real. Then they realized that ditchdiggers seldom make the obit pages, and they decided to take a more careful statistical look at executives to see how the bosses fared. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., with battalions of executives and divisions of manual workers, was an ideal place for the study...
Though the success of West Germany's Volkswagen has been one of postwar Europe's most glittering economic achievements, aggressive Chairman Heinz Nordhoff, 64, feels that a moment of relaxation by his company could be fatal. "What an auto company loses in the market today," says Nordhoff, "it probably can't recover in the next 50 years." To keep Volkswagen from slipping-it is now the world's third biggest automaker, after General Motors and Ford-Nordhoff plans to spend $375-500 million on expansion in the next five years, lift Volkswagen's annual capacity...
...were her words. Each of the 80 paintings in her diary of despair echoes them-first with innocent uncertainty, then with primitive clarity, finally with resignation. Older than Anne Frank but, like her, a German, a Jew, and doomed to die, she recounts her life as a string of fatal instants that flash past like dagger thrusts...