Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anti-anti-missileers' greatest fear is a nuclear accident in their own backyards. At a Boston hearing last week, four Army generals and colonels were asked what would happen if there were an accident. When the military men quickly ducked the issue, they were confronted by M.I.T. Visiting Professor George Rathjens, who was deputy director of the Pentagon's Advance Research Projects Agency under President Kennedy. "An accidental explosion would cause total destruction for a radius of five miles," he said, though he allowed that any such mishap was "extremely improbable...
Whatever the outcome of the Pueblo investigation, it will be only a prelude to an even more intensive inquiry. Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird has ordered a top-level Pentagon study "to see that incidents of this kind do not happen again." However, the overriding significance of the Pueblo inquiry so far is not that the seizure occurred, but that a mentality existed in the U.S. Defense Department that allowed it to occur. That may take more than a Pentagon study to correct...
...magnitude of last November's underground explosion near Farmington, W. Va., which resulted in the deaths of 78 coal miners, to attract serious attention to the problem of job safety at all. The great majority of on-the-job casualties occur in mundane fashion; and they usually happen one at a time...
...WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE COURTS? IBM, which has produced about two-thirds of the 43,000 computers in the U.S., is charged with violation of the Sherman Act's Section 2, a broad prohibition of "monopoly" that suggests that bigness alone is bad. The most direct precedent traces to 1945, when the U.S. directed the Aluminum Co. of America to split off properties. The key opinion was written by Judge Learned Hand of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, who decided that law "did not condone 'good trusts' and condemn 'bad' ones; it forbade...
Uneasy Marriage. Yet the authors predict that the 1968 setback is temporary. "When the movement takes the offensive again, its dynamism will return," they claim. "One day the barricades will surely be raised again." But they admit that this will not happen until long-established barriers between French workers and intellectuals are torn down. The May events proved that the marriage between the two factions was at best merely convenient...