Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Death came slowly, however, as Dartmouth sent the game into overtime. The teams exchanged goals in the the first overtime and went scoreless in the second period. It wasn't until Tennis fired his fifth, fatal shot that the Big Green was laid to rest, six teams deep, at the bottom of the Ivy League. Harvard finished the season with a 4-9 slate...
Trouble Light. Even recall campaigns involving products with defects that could be fatal to consumers have evoked little in the way of a response. In 1974, the CPSC issued a recall order for a $2 "trouble light" distributed mainly by Pennsylvania-based Action Industries. The device, when held a certain way, could electrocute a user, and one already had done so. Action Industries hired a public relations firm to mount a nationwide campaign publicizing the dangers and the recall of the item and offering a full refund. But only 15% of the 145,000 or so lights that had been...
...wizards to pierce the eyes of a black sheep-symbolizing Tombalbaye-and bury it alive. The movement to oust Tombalbaye gained momentum last summer when, as part of an authenticity campaign called Chaditude, he ordered all high government officials, civil servants and military officers to undergo Yondo, a sometimes fatal initiation ritual. The ordeal, which Tombalbaye himself underwent as an adolescent, is known to involve flogging, facial scarring, drugging and mock burial (TIME...
Whatever, the future, Connally looks and acts like a president. From his upset victory in the 1962 race for governor of Texas, through his near-fatal wounding in John Kennedy's limousine in Dallas, through his acquittal last week. Connally's unshakable faith in his destiny has proved well-founded. He summed up his attitude about politics in the advice he gave Nixon: "If you lose, you lose big. But what's the sense of losing small?" John Connally has never lost, small or big, and the events of last week suggest that it still may be unwise...
Readers of the current Scientific American are informed of several shattering discoveries. Among them: a fatal flaw in Einstein's special theory of relativity, a motor that runs on psychic energy, and a page from Leonardo Da Vinci's newly discovered notebooks, the Madrid Codices, which conclusively prove that the Renaissance man invented the flush toilet 500 years ago. Respondents who are bombarding the magazine with telephone inquiries and letters are being advised to take a second look at the article. It is sprinkled with names like Ms. Henrietta Birdbrain and Robert Ripoff-as befits an April Fools...