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Failure & Fright. The S. & L.s have been badly tarnished by recent scandals. Top officials of three S. & L.s in California and three in Chicago have been indicted on charges ranging from embezzlement to making fraudulent loans. Six associations in Illinois have been liquidated, taken over by authorities or forced to merge; 22 in Maryland are in receivership, and federal officials say that about a dozen others around the nation are "in trouble." Though no depositors have lost money-thanks to federal deposit insurance-the sour publicity frightened away customers...
...Newby, driver of the soft-drink truck, he was seized with a terrible fear that his gasoline tanks had ruptured. The dripping recalled a wreck he had witnessed years before, when he watched two people burn to death in a fire fed by gasoline. As a result of his fright in the cab of his truck, Newby sank into a fearful, suspicious, irritable state that psychiatrists recognized as psychotic. Claiming that he was unable to work, he sued the other trucking company...
...fear alone. In a classic decision in 1896, the New York Court of Appeals held that a woman who was frightened by a recklessly driven team of horses and later suffered a miscarriage could not recover damages-the horses came close, but did not actually touch her. If mere fright became a basis for negligence suits, said the court, "a wide field would be opened for fictitious or speculative claims." Most other state courts agreed...
...psychiatry have resulted in changing doctrines in the courts. In a case that became a legal milestone, a ski-lift attendant failed to fasten the safety belt of a nine-year-old girl; she became hysterically frightened and displayed severe emotional symptoms. Explicitly overruling its earlier approach to "mere fright," the New York Court of Appeals in 1961 upheld an award for damages although the girl had suffered no physical harm whatever...
...Crimson's performance last night could have thrown a fright into any team in the country; this evening against Penn the Key problem will be to avoid the effects of a let-down. At any rate, they'd better leave those extra 300 seats up in the IBA. Harvard basketball may have won quite a few converts yesterday