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Occupational Hazard. In Victoria, B.C., Times Publisher Stuart Keate was fined $15 for speeding on the Island Highway, explained to the court: "Your honor, I was on my way to a meeting of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Vancouver Island, where I was to speak in support of a resolution to favor retaining highway speed limits at 50 m.p.h...
...France's bloody conflict in Algeria, war correspondents are running not only the occupational hazard of shot and shell but a new kind of risk. Though 350,000 French troops are committed, and the hostilities have claimed some 50,000 deaths on both sides, France does not recognize the conflict as a war. Result: a legalistic no man's land in which reporters trying conscientiously to get the Algerian side of the story by meeting with fellagha leaders either in Paris or Algiers put themselves at the mercy of French security and treason laws...
...their independent Democratic Governor Frank Lausche. Lausche's recent endorsement of the President's farm bill veto "was quite shocking to Democrats everywhere-it was sharply in conflict with the majority." If Lausche wins his Senate race against Republican Senator George Bender this year, Butler would not hazard a guess whether Lausche "would vote with the Democratic majority or the Republican minority.'' And as for Lausche for the Democratic presidential nomination, "I haven't heard much about Lausche in the party outside of Ohio . . . There has been no organized effort under the administration of Governor...
...high C will crack and degenerate into an ignominious squeal-or whether his voice will simply refuse to make any sound at all-keeps him in a constant state of apprehension. Moreover, the whole business of singing at the top of his voice and range presents an additional physical hazard. The fact that good tenors are always in short supply aggravates the other problems by encouraging the poor fellow to sing more than is good for him. It all adds up to a disease that might be called tenoritis. Symptoms...
...Extra Hazard. In the New York metropolitan area, viewers who wanted to watch either show were faced by an additional hazard-the necessity of ungluing their small fry from the channel that featured the 1933 movie King Kong on station WOR-TV's Million Dollar Movie. Some distraught parents reported that their entranced children had watched the single-minded pursuit of Fay Wray by the colossal gorilla every single night of the five it was shown. Said a happy WOR executive: "This has been the biggest thing since Davy Crockett...