Word: jans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your Essay was a splendid contribution toward a solution of the problem of compensating automobile-accident victims [Jan. 26]. Only lawyers with a vested interest in automobile-accident litigation fail to discard the "central myth" that auto accidents can be avoided and that recovery must be founded on fault. The lethal nature of motor vehicles and the sheer weight of their numbers render accidents inevitable, divesting them of purely private concern-the subject of litigation predicated on negligence...
...Your splendid summary of the 21st century railroad [Jan. 26] glossed over the incompetence and inadequate management of railroad passenger service. If Messrs. Saunders and Perlman would show the same attention to improving the lot of passengers as they obviously have shown to freight, America would enjoy a third service (to air and highway...
...What has happened to the vaunted objectivity of scientists like Desmond Morris? According to your review, his book purporting to explain the development of man from apes [Jan. 26] raises two or more questions for each one it claims to answer...
...most modern sculptures, dry ice is the ideal material [Jan. 12]. It's lucky Rodin didn't have...
During last year's outbreak of left-wing terrorism (TIME, Jan. 26), Sister Marian's students were appalled by the tough government measures taken to put down the uprising, decided on religious grounds to side with the rebels. So did the nun and her two priest friends, who met one day in November with a guerrilla leader in the village of Escuintla. When the Maryknoll superior in Guatemala, Father John M. Breen, heard of the meeting, he ordered the missionaries to stay out of politics or return to the order's headquarters in Ossining, N.Y. Instead, Sister...