Word: harpers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During 15 years of work with the police and with insurance companies, William Wirich Harper of Pasadena, physicist-consultant on auto accidents, has investigated 3,000 smashups. He has come to a basic conclusion: "We have spent too damn much time worrying about the cause of accidents. It's time we started worrying about the cause of injuries...
...simplest way to avoid injury, Harper says, is to wear a safety belt, which at the very least will keep the passenger from being thrown out. He should usually escape serious injury unless the car is crushed...
TOLSTOY: A LIFE OF MY FATHER (543 pp.)-Alexandra Tolsyoy-Harper...
Higher education in the U.S. is chaotic and is bogged down in makeshift adjustments to environment, too much vocational specialization and lack of a basic philosophy. This is the theme of Robert Maynard Hutchins' new book, The Conflict in Education (Harper; $2), published this week. Educator Hutchins, longtime (1929-51) head of the University of Chicago and now associate director of the Ford Foundation, warns that unless the universities begin preparing students to participate in the "Great Conversation that began with the dawn of history and continues at the present day," the outlook for Western civilization is indeed grim...
...Another novelist who finds it hard to do anything seriously wrong is Wright Morris. In The Deep Sleep (Scribner), he dissects the private lives of a Philadelphia Main Line family, and shows that things aren't what they seem to the neighbors. In his new book, In Love (Harper), Alfred Hayes, author of The Girl on the Via Flaminia, explores an unpleasant Manhattan love affair without writing an unpleasant book. In The Sleeping Beauty (Viking), British Novelist Elizabeth Taylor tells of a middle-age love affair at an English seaside resort...