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What's wrong with these heroes running only among their own kind at Le Mans or Indianapolis or on the dirt bullrings of the Middle West, where traffic is, omitting spectacular exceptions, headed in the same direction? Wildlife might be safer, too. Usually the winners don't have to fight their way through so many rabbits...
...traffic is still 71 mph. Another thing is that police manpower is wasted trying to enforce the 55 mph limit. What Brock believes is that drivers who know what they're doing are no danger driving at high speeds on the interstates." In fact, he said, they're safer, because they're paying more attention to what they're doing. Cruising around at 55 mph, people lapse into zombiehood, an Orwellian coma, lulled into deadly unconscious by the AM radios...
...dead and wounded would be in vain unless Congress voted new military aid to Viet Nam. Many Vietnamese and foreign observers were quick to blame the U.S. for the plight of South Viet Nam. Saigon's ambassador to Washington, Tran Kim Phuong, stated that it is "probably safer to be an ally of the Communists." In a wild-eyed broadside in the New York Times, Sir Robert Thompson, consultant on guerrilla warfare to President Nixon, argued that "a new foreign policy line has already been laid down by Congress: if you surrender, the killing will stop...
...precautionary actions taken by many people. Hoarding pushed up the price of rice by some 10%. Housewives were stashing away three-month supplies of Nuoc Mam, the redolent fish sauce. Businessmen were transferring piasters from Vietnamese banks to the local branches of U.S. banks, hoping they would prove safer if the Communists came...
...A.M.A. spokesmen ignored three of the important studies and misrepresented the others. They also mentioned the possibility of serious adverse side effects but referred to them as hypothetical. The danger of forming kidney stones has been greatly exaggerated. Vitamin C is a much safer substance than ordinary cold medicines; moreover, it can stop a cold, whereas ordinary cold medicines cannot...