Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...occasionally food is unsufficiently heated, particularly during home canning. (The FDA investigation seemed to point to insufficient heating procedures, but Bon Vivant has not yet given an explanation.) Since 1960, there have been 78 outbreaks of botulism in the U.S. and 182 individual cases, of which 42 proved fatal. Twenty-six of the deaths were caused by home-canned foods...
Preventable Poison. Botulism, however, need not be fatal if diagnosed in time and treated promptly. Supplies of antitoxin against the three main types of botulin poisoning known to affect humans are stockpiled at the U.S. Public Health Service's Center for Disease Control in Atlanta. Authorities warn that the antitoxin should be administered only after certain diagnosis since panicky patients who are suffering from other forms of food poisoning can have dangerous or even fatal reactions to it. They add that botulism need not be contracted at all. Because bringing food to a boil destroys the odorless and usually...
Nineteen months had passed without a single fatal crash of a scheduled airliner in the U.S., a safety record unprecedented in commercial aviation. But last week, in the inexplicable pattern that seems to govern such disasters, two airliners went down, one on each coast, killing a total of 78 persons. Twenty-eight of them died when an Allegheny Airlines twin jet crashed in a swamp near Connecticut's Tweed-New Haven Airport. Another 50 were killed in the collision of a Hughes Air West DC-9 and a Navy F-4 Phantom jet over California's San Gabriel...
...World War II hero Audie Murphy (see page 27) was a melancholy reminder that society imposes an impossible burden on those few from whom it expects so much. This is especially true of the battle hero, whose impulsiveness, perhaps sheer recklessness, and submersion of self can emerge as fatal faults in the day-by-day pursuit of peacetime success. And the hero, too, aware of his own weakness, must always fight the fear that he does not deserve all of the accolades...
...foreman had threatened to get Johnson fired. Later, when Johnson returned from a vacation, his time card was missing and he was informed by letter that he had been dismissed for taking time off improperly. It was a personnel goof, but Johnson saw a conspiracy building. On the fatal day, he was ordered to unload the ovens, a job generally conceded to be the worst in the plant. He refused and was suspended. An hour later he was back in the plant, ready, in the words of one worker, "to shoot at everyone wearing a white shirt...