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Living in 5-ft.-high igloos and plywood huts that are frozen-not nailed - together, the searchers often work in 30° F. temperatures and 35 m.p.h. winds that combine to produce an equivalent of -100° F. cold. Frostbite is a constant hazard, and flashlight batteries freeze into uselessness after ten minutes of exposure. Men returning from the crash site must be checked for radiation, have their garments vacuumed and their noses swabbed with cotton dabbed in alcohol-all part of the decontamination process...
Dean Watson stated that the Committee on Houses had resolved to restrict mixers because the huge numbers of people who attended were causing a fire hazard by exceeding the limits set by fire laws...
...final dash, the escapee must cross the new version of the old Death Strip. This is now, variously, a 100-ft. lawn or a cinder covering, where powerful mercury-vapor lamps make even the most fleeting figure an easy target at night. In some places, there is the added hazard of hidden 6-in. steel spikes. In the unlikely event that he gets this far, the escapee finds himself before the New Wall itself. It is not only smoother and higher (15 ft. v. 9-12 ft.) than its predecessor but is topped by a 15-in.-wide pipe that...
...Steerage? The book's cool tone invites no emotional response, but it is certain to evoke one. A sense of great hazard, of impending doom, pervades its pages, no doubt unintentionally. After projecting unprecedented wealth and leisure by the year 2000-median family income of $21,000 in the U.S., a four-day work week-the authors study the consequences: "There may be a great increase in selfishness, a great decline of interest in government and society as a whole . . . More and more people would act on the aphorism currently attributed to a leader of the new student left...
...Poets' Theatre is a semi-professional group dedicated to the production of original plays. It was reopened last year by a committee including William Alfred, professor of English, and Mary Manning (widow of the late Mark deWolfe Howe) after closing in 1958 because of a fire hazard in its old Palmer Street home...