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Erikson said he called the police when he thought the crowd was large enough to constitute a fire hazard. He termed the party a "massive violation" of University and house policies which limit the size and scope of private parties...
After the U. S. arrests an alleged KGB agent, the Soviets threaten Correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with espionage charges. For Western reporters in Moscow, harassment is an occupational hazard. -- The crash of a small plane and a jetliner over...
...week the National Research Council offered the nonsmoking majority some relief. After an 18- month study for the Federal Aviation Administration, the council recommended a federal ban on smoking on all domestic airline flights. The report offered no solid proof that smoke in airplane cabins is a genuine health hazard to nonsmokers, but it did conclude that the smoke causes watery eyes, headaches and other discomforts that make it a source of complaints aboard planes. No- smoking sections solve nothing, the researchers said, since fresh-air circulation in many crowded airline cabins is already at a minimal level even without...
...Kenmore and ordered to cut the growth in his front yard or be fined. He explained that the six-foot-high stand of weeds was in fact a meadow of wild flowers, "a natural yard, growing the way God intended." Wrong, said the court. The yard was a hazard to drivers and children, and too hospitable to insects and rodents. Ultimately, Kenney gave up and moved to Connecticut...
...could this happen? Richard Feynman, the Caltech physicist who turned out to be one of the commission's most insightful members, probably explained it best. The joint hazard was often discussed before a flight, Feynman pointed out. "It flies and nothing happens," he theorized at a commission hearing. "Then it is suggested, therefore, that the risk is no longer so high for the next flight--we can lower our standards a bit because we got away with it last time. It's a kind of Russian roulette." In fact, with each pull of the launch trigger, the odds...