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...small explosion sparks a fire within a local laboratory, releasing half a liter of toxic nerve gas agents through a broken window into the atmosphere. A warm summer's breeze carries the cloud of nerve gas past a nearby highway, motel, bowling alley, playground and disco. In a matter of minutes, several hundred unsuspecting people are subject to the devastating effects of toxic substances...
After ten years, the 55 m.p.h. speed limit qualifies as a success. "One of the most effective highway safety policies ever adopted," says a report by a National Research Council committee. The study, released last week, declares that last year the speed limit saved 2,000 to 4,000 lives, 167,000 bbl. of oil per day and $65 million of taxpayers' funds for welfare and medical costs to accident victims and their families...
...theory, even such a cost is quite feasible in a trillion-dollar economy. For the Federal Government, the gigantic bill would represent only about 3% of the budget deficit, the price of three Trident submarines, or about half of what is spent annually on bridge and highway repair. And until fairly recently, the ideal of good medical care for every citizen was proclaimed to be a top national priority. "The fulfillment of our national purpose," Congress rather grandly declared in 1966, "depends on promoting and assuring the highest level of health attainable for every person...
...schedule has hardly fizzled. Besides The Cosby Show, NBC has another successful new series in Michael Landon's Highway to Heaven, and several returning shows are also doing well. These, combined with such high-rated TV movies as last week's Fatal Vision, have helped the network vault into a strong second position, only three-tenths of a rating point behind CBS for the season so far, and 1.6 points ahead of the sinking...
...rail towers above the head of the lock keeper. A moment later, the lock's forward gates swing open and the ship sails on, a full 16 ft. higher than it was when it entered. Ahead of it stretches the Erie Canal, as straight and flat as a highway...