Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dirty Hands. Whatever the legal and political fallout, the most fundamental problem confronting Congress in the wake of its historic vote last week is that of its own ethics. Now that Powell has been excluded, Capitol Hill can ill afford to coddle other rascals, as it unquestionably has done in the past. In the past 16 years, for example, two House members were allowed to serve out their terms despite conviction for payroll padding, and a third served a four-month prison term for income-tax evasion, won re-election later that year and was subsequently sworn...
Double Indemnity. "There are more of these that we suspect are suicide than we care to say," says John McCleverty, director of the Cook County, Ill., traffic commission. "But we simply don't know." Adds Colonel Dan Casey, chief of the Nebraska safety patrol: "We may have the feeling a traffic death may have been a suicide, but we need proof." Yet one figure, circumstantial as it may be, stands out. Though all auto deaths have increased by 32% in the past ten years, single-car fatalities that result from collisions with fixed objects-the most likely form...
Thus it was that the ill-fated Apollo was equipped with a hatch that took 90 seconds to open-much too long to save the astronauts, who died within 20 seconds of asphyxiation by carbon monoxide. Thus it also was that the spacecraft contained materials that had been tested for flammability under pure oxygen at a pressure of 5 Ibs. per sq. in. but not under the more dangerous 16 Ibs. used in the ground test...
Brandy at Sundown. A generation ago, it had seemed possible that the original pioneer settler, a Scot named Ferris, might have made an outpost of civilization in this ill-favored wilderness. He had cleared the bush, trained the natives in animal husbandry and domestic service, imported the piano, the chandelier, the stone lions at the stoep, wine glasses and even books. In the hands of Ferris' son, a potbellied boor named Archie, things fall apart-both literally and figuratively. The piano sinks through the termite-ridden floor, the chandelier is unlit, the glasses are broken, the cattle...
...Pushing. In Utah he declared grandiloquently that Johnson is being "ambivalent in a completely flexible situation." In Alaska and Idaho, on the other hand, Romney found Johnson "locked into his own mistakes and a rigid defense of his position." He also denounced the Administration's approach as "clumsy, ill-timed and poorly coordinated." In stop after stop, Romney called Johnson "sincere in his search for peace. I do not wish to be one of those who undermine his efforts...