Word: rashness
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Dusted liberally over baby's bottom to prevent diaper rash, talcum powder is considered by most parents to be safe. That assumption is not necessarily true. There have been scattered incidents in the U.S. of severe skin rashes and even poisoning from powder containing dangerous ingredients. Last year doctors warned that a high asbestos content in talc could lead to lung cancer. French medical authorities in the 1950s blamed a talc accidentally laced with arsenic for killing 69 infants. Last week the French government indicted a talcum powder for the recent deaths of 28 babies. The suspected ingredient: hexachlorophene...
Eboli had worked in the rackets for at least 40 years, mainly in New York's Greenwich Village. Although long considered too rash for high command, he was once summoned to his native Italy to receive the personal praise of his deported boss, Lucky Luciano, for jumping into a Madison Square Garden ring and slugging the referee after one of his fighters, Rocky Castellani, was beaten. He climbed steadily in the family of Luciano's successor, Vito Genovese, partly by shooting straight. He reportedly carried out a contract in 1962 to gun down Anthony Strollo, another rising Genovese...
Proud, confident but somewhat irritated, General Motors Chairman Richard Gerstenberg has been running his own campaign to counter the bad publicity tied to the company's recent rash of auto recalls. A few weeks ago he told members of the Pontiac, Mich., service clubs that G.M. is now conducting fewer recalls than in the past. Between 1960 and 1966 the company had 111 auto recalls, compared with 94 during the past six years. Savoring his point, Gerstenberg concluded: "We build them better-much better...
Finally at 2:30 a.m., the Committee voted, 4-2, with one abstention, not to renew Frisoli's contract as Superintendent. This decision provoked a rash of small fires, false alarms and bomb scares in the Cambridge public schools the following day. Frisoli's supporters vowed that they would take the issue to the people in a referendum. Although "Citizens for Frisoli" gathered 12,396 signatures--more than the 12 per cent of eligible voters necessary to make the School Committee reconsider its decision--the Committee again voted to oust Frisoli, by a vote of 4-3, and the City...
...however, no one contemplated a third threat: that terrorists would stow their weapons aboard for action on the ground. Just as new fences appeared at U.S. airports following a rash of bombs on TWA planes, airlines will try to close this latest security gap with a more extensive baggage search. The question is to what extent passengers will put up with such checks...