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Walter Gilbert '53, American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology, found himself in that very position this August, and the University has quickly taken steps to ensure that a similar mishap does not occur again...
Today any mishap, no matter how fluky, can wind up in court. Take the case of the woman who collected $50,000 damages from San Francisco with the contention that her fall against a pole in a runaway cable car transformed her into a nymphomaniac. Or the pedestrian who, as she crossed Chicago's Sears Tower plaza, suffered a broken jaw when the wind toppled her against a guard rail. She recently filed a $250,000 suit against the architects and manager of the building. Her argument: the structure's design increased wind velocities in the area; moreover...
...avant-garde of the litigant spirit that is most unsettling. If one can blame the Government for a lightning strike and a corporation for a wind gust, it is easy to imagine tracking almost any mishap to some distant agency. Should owners of property on which there is a public passageway prohibit barefoot pedestrians or else assume liability for every stubbed toe? Must the manufacturer of a knife clearly label it as dangerous or else be vulnerable to damages for a kitchen worker's sliced finger? Could the designer of a dam be blamed if a voluntary swimmer drowned...
...astronaut is separated from his ship and sent hurtling off to his death in space by an intelligent but deranged computer. Last week, in spite of Russian efforts to keep the incident quiet, Western sources reported that a Soviet cosmonaut narrowly avoided a similar fate in February. The near mishap apparently resulted from an unauthorized space walk by Cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko, 33, during last spring's record-breaking 96-day orbital flight aboard the Salyut 6 space station...
Before last year's mishap, Barker's charges held the Adams Cup for five years, and ten of the last...