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...head the safety agency, the President nominated Dr. William Haddon Jr., 40, a career man with the New York State department of health, most recently as director of its chronic-diseases division. For years, Haddon has been interested in auto safety, and he has written several books on the subject. One of them, Accident Research: Methods and Approaches (1964), won a National Safety Council award. Though he has often been critical of Detroit's safety standards, Haddon has nonetheless earned a reputation among automakers of being a fair-minded and reasonable...
...referred to the reception for Governor Connally "at Atlantic City's aging Haddon Hall" [Sept. 4]. Having stayed at this fine hotel, I merely wish to say that although it may have come of age, it has certainly done so gracefully. I have not been in a hotel in recent years with employees as well-mannered or with as efficient service as at Haddon Hall...
...Democratic campaign song, Hello, Lyndon! Maine's delegation caucused around their motel-headquarters pool one morning, met again that night to whoop it up until the wee hours. The Texas delegation honored Governor John Connally with a Dior-and diamond-filled bash at Atlantic City's aging Haddon Hall, and the New Jersey host delegation gave cocktail parties on three successive afternoons in a penthouse suite overlooking the ocean...
...months, investigators logged the place and hour of each adult pedestrian fatality in Manhattan. Then, reported Dr. William Haddon Jr., a team went there at the same hour the next day and interviewed the first four pedestrians who happened along. The researchers went so far as to collect breath samples from them. The victims presumably differed somehow from their neighbors who crossed the same streets safely at the same hours...
...case of the poisoned flounder, in which a three-year-old Haddon Heights, N.J. boy died of sodium-nitrite poisoning (TIME, April 6), had a sequel last week. Daniel DiOrio, 50, president of Philadelphia's Universal Seafood Co., offered no defense when charged in U.S. District Court with having used the sodium nitrite on fish with intent to mislead and defraud. Judge Thomas C. Egan sentenced him to a month in prison, with three years on probation, fined him $2,500. Said the judge: "This caused the unfortunate and almost vicious death of a three-year...