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...consumers' lobby. He devoted the first chapter of his book, Unsafe at Any Speed, to an attack on the Corvair. During a series of congressional hearings, Nader followed up by calling the Corvair "the leading candidate for the un-safest-car title." The assault was lethal; sales plummeted from 220,000 in 1965 to 14,800 last year...
...safety regulations governing U.S. railroads are a major goal of the National Transportation Safety Board, which has noted that derailments in creased by 71% between 1961 and 1968 (TIME, March 7). Last week the case for regulation was strengthened still fur ther when two more freight trains with potentially lethal cargoes jumped the tracks on the same...
Broadcasters usually consider TV censorship a menace only slightly less lethal than poison gas. Once released, they say, even the smallest amount of enforced control over programming will inexorably expand until it eventually envelops and deadens the most remote corners of the communications industry. Yet at its annual convention in Washington, D.C., last week, the National Association of Broadcasters-which includes station owners and networks-took a tentative step toward adopting a plan for the industry's first version of formal censorship...
...methods for ending the war. It is doubtful that either statesmen or generals will agree on the peace-winning potential of the most imaginative of the bureau's ideas: "Drop 50,000 Honda motor scooters by parachute on Hanoi. In the hands of Vietnamese riders, they are peculiarly lethal weapons; and when they are not moving fast enough to cause casualties, they can be counted on to tie up the city in war-stopping traffic jams...
...wise move. The script by Herman Raucher and Newley never graduates to the sophomoric. Female characters are given Ian Fleming labels with a touch of Li'l Abner: Polyester Poontang, Miss Maidenhead Fern, Trampolena Whambang and Miss Hope Climax. Jokes consist of lethal single entendres like "Heironymus lays them in the aisles," or Berle's remark as he rows a boat on a sandy beach: "I haven't passed water in three days." Between them, Newley rants some chants that are mislabeled songs, appears more naked than his victims, and plots along in the hope that some...