Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Accidents-on the road, at work, at play and in the home-are now the leading cause of death among Americans aged 1 to 37. According to the National Research Council, accidents killed a total of 107,000 Americans last year, temporarily or permanently disabled 10.5 million, caused injury requiring treatment to 52 million. Some 49,000 of the deaths were caused by auto accidents. The bill, in wage losses, medical expenses and insurance settlements, was $18 billion...
...small-scale campaign to return segregation and conservatism to the Law School. Complaining of the "Yale invasion," he has written a number of letters to the editor of the Mississippian, the University daily, attacking Dean Morse and the "leftists" that are "leading the Law School down the road of liberalism...
...peasants there are no more likely than the first group to cozy up to the Viet Cong, but they will be lucky if they escape with only a dose of indoctrination. While Americans celebrated Thanksgiving, a group of Viet Cong ambushed a truck convoy of civilians on a road 135 miles northeast of Saigon. Before they were through, they had killed nine people...
...rally last week, spectators hooted and booed Holt for his pro-Viet Nam stand; as he left the rally, a jeering mob of 500 swarmed around him, pummeling, kicking and finally spitting on him. When police finally got Holt to his car, a few diehards threw themselves across the road. The follow ing night at a Melbourne rally, demonstrators were at it again, chanting "Judas!" and "Traitor!" "If the Labor Party cannot control these demonstrations," shouted an exasperated Holt, "what chance have they in controlling our destiny?" Most of Australia's 6,000,000 voters got the point...
...effort to take the Mississippi poverty program out of S.N.C.C.'s hands. "We have a very, very low ideological commitment," says Evans, who takes pride in the fact that the column cannot be identified with any political party or doctrine. "We are resolutely middle of the road," says Novak...