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...Traffic Hazard. In Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., the city council politely asked policemen not to double-park while writing out parking tickets...
WASHINGTON, May 5--Atomic Energy Commission Chairman John A. McCone said today a scientific advisory committee soon "will give further reassurance to the people of the world about the very small hazard resulting from fallout" of nuclear bomb tests...
...have concentrated on strontium 90, neglected its little brother, strontium 89, though they are similar in emitting damaging beta rays. Main difference: Sr-89 decays faster, losing half its activity in 54 days, v. 20 years for Sr-90. But of the two, Sr-89 may be a greater hazard to the unborn child, warned Dr. Arthur R. Schulert of Columbia University's Lamont Geological Observatory, because an atomic fission bomb produces 160 times as much of it, and 20 times as much as appeared in milk after weapons tests. While Sr-89 does not remain active long enough...
Other committee members attacked the bugaboo of cirrhosis of the liver, managed to convince themselves that it was a greatly exaggerated hazard, because in a sampling at a big Paris hospital. 35% of the cirrhosis victims survived the disease. Somehow, this struck the committee as more significant than the fact that almost twice as many died...
Along with all the other problems that beset the motorist the world over, drivers in Holland have one added hazard to contend with: the canals. An average of two cars a day slip their brakes, back into or otherwise plunge into the country's famed waterways. Last year, 100 drivers and passengers drowned before help arrived...