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...strong enough, say Con Ed engineers, to hold the most violent explosion that could possibly happen inside, and it will be tight enough to keep any trace of radioactive gas from reaching the outdoors. In normal operation, except for diluted gases discharged up a 500-ft. smokestack and harmless amounts of waste washed away by the swift currents of the East River, no trace of radioactivity will escape from the plant. Says Harland C. Forbes, Con Ed's board chairman: "I think it represents the ultimate in safety...
...acceptable to Macmillan, at 69 a little remote from reality, it should not have fooled the others. "We were a bunch of ninnies," admits one of the five privately, and adds with extraordinary logic: "We recalled that earlier case,* in which 'My dear Vassall' proved to be harmless, so we were bound to feel that 'Darling' might well be similarly harmless...
...only are the same old things dealt with far more directly, but the modern attitude toward various forms of sexual activity would jolt some of the most advanced thinkers of Stopesville. Masturbation, for instance, is no longer just a relatively harmless pastime -it is a blessing. Maxine Davis calls it "a benign measure for relief of tension under special circumstances." Clinical Psychologist Albert Ellis, in his widely read Sex Without Guilt, finds it "beneficial...
...Irony. Already more than a year had passed since Ricky was first condemned. The court finally ruled in a 4-3 decision that the faulty warrant was a "harmless error." But Chief Justice John W. Eggleston wrote a dissenting minority opinion. Said he: "In effect, the [circuit] court, without notice or process, converted a criminal proceeding against the owner of the dog into a civil proceeding for its forfeiture. This may be a short cut to the desired result, but, in my opinion, it does violence to the elementary requirement of due process...
...March 1959. in the British Central Africa protectorate of Nyasaland, harmless-looking Elard Chipandale, 31, tied a handful of magic twigs about his waist, donned a coat of tree bark, and turned himself into a crocodile. He lay in wait by the bank of the Mwanza River for an eight-year-old girl named Mponda