Word: occurred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jetliners have reached middle age. The first 707s went into service back in 1958, and some of the earliest have since logged more than 250,000 flight hours. The hairline cracks are caused by metal fatigue that commonly develops in high-time aircraft at points where flex and strain occur; even in the DC-6, one of the sturdiest planes ever built, fissures were discovered in a number of wing spars in 1960. To date, said the FAA, no aviation accident of any kind has been attributed to such defects...
...spite of widespread national concern about the inequity and inefficiency of the draft, an effective overhaul of the Selective Service Act will almost certainly not occur until the Act comes up for renewal in 1968. But there is one simple change which Congress could and should make now. Two year service in the domestic or foreign peace corps should count as a complete and legitimate alternative to military service...
...When I used the term Birchers of the Left, I referred to those who, in apocalyptic frenzy, denounce all who disagree with them as immoral sellouts. A number of fine liberals disagree with the Vice President's views on Viet Nam (and mine), but it would no more occur to them to accuse him of selling out than it would occur to me to call them comsymps or appeasers. What is characteristic of Birchers of all persuasions is their repudiation of the standards of civility that make meaningful discourse and serious argument possible...
...because the thermometer had pierced the wall of its rectum. Actual perforation of the rectum appears to be rare, says the A.M.A., but "injury to the rectum by the thermometer is not uncommon. Severe bleeding, ulceration, abscesses, hematomas and scarring have been reported." Autopsies indicate that rectal injury may occur in more than 6% of patients...
Alleviating these sinister superlatives is an exciting idea: it is possible not only to prevent a large number of accidents, but also to immunize passengers against trauma and grave injury when accidents do occur. With effort and purpose, the nation could cut the traffic toll almost as sharply and effectively as it did smallpox and polio. In dozens of laboratories in Detroit, and on campuses from Harvard to U.C.L.A., engineers, statisticians, highway designers, and psychologists are working toward the goal of "delethalization...