Word: risks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There's little risk of rent-skipping at South Bay, a $3,000,000, 248-unit complex housing 500 single stewardesses, doctors, teachers, engineers, secretaries and salesmen. Not only must applicants fight their way up through South Bay's long waiting list but, once in, they simply do not want to leave-even though they must pay rents from $125 for an efficiency to $260 for a two-bedroom pad. These rates are from $50 to $100 higher than those in comparable apartment houses, which are suffering an average vacancy rate of 15%, but South Bay is full...
Family Reunion. He was something of a character himself. To his children, N.C. seemed "a combination of Paul Bunyan and Santa Claus"; to keep that illusion alive, he would risk his neck each Christmas Eve to stomp noisily atop the icy roof of their house. To his neighbors near Chadds Ford, Pa. -where N.C. had settled in 1903 to study under another great illustrator, Howard Pyle-and in Maine, where he subsequently summered, Wyeth was a big-hearted man, equally at home with farmers and fishermen...
...minutes. By ignoring the number of people actually vulnerable to such crimes, says Professor Robison, the crime clock presents a distorted picture: "Since the base figures cover an entire year, the number of offenses should be divided by 365 days to represent the chances that any one person would risk. Utilizing this method, rough calculations for murder in 1964 suggest that in the country as a whole, the chance of being, murdered on a given day is approximately one in two million...
...alive with North Vietnamese troops, elements of Ho Chi Minn's ill-fated 324th Division, which had been driven out of South Viet Nam last month by the U.S. Marines' Operation Hastings. Intelligence reports indicated that the 324th was no stranger to the area; rather than risk running the gauntlet of air reconnaissance and allied strongpoints along the Ho Chi Minh trail, the division had actually infiltrated into the South two months ago, moving straight across the forbidden...
...suit resulting from the 1960 death of a 16-year-old boy. The judge, who observed that the lad had had little experience as a driver and had been speeding, found that "the Corvair matches a standard of safety which does not create any unreasonable risk to an average driver...