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...said Nixon, "I am glad to be back home in Indiana." The crowd was nearly evangelical in its response, one woman exclaiming over and over again: "Amen, amen, Nixon! He can't be beat." Along with the usual campaign placards, a new sticker appeared on Hoosier cars: "Feel Safer with Nixon." The candidate must also have felt safe: this was the state he carried by nearly 225,000 votes in the 1960 election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: At the Half Mile | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...people to their deaths in the river's numbing waters. The ugly jigsaw along the Ohio may have been the most visible effort, but it is only part of what the little-known National Transportation Safety Board has done in its first year in order to make it safer for Americans to travel about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: Traveler's Friend | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...safer than alcohol? You know it! Say, can you imagine Judgment Day, when all us swingers are standing there with our beads and beer and grass? Account for something? That went out years ago. We're safe; we'll make it because there's no conscience in a "brave new world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 3, 1968 | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

...order be issued by him immediately to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand, because they're potential murderers, and to shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting." As for young looters, Daley favored the use of Chemical Mace as "safer." Rapping his top cop, James B. Conlisk Jr., for failing to apply "deadly force" to stop the burning and looting that erupted in the Windy City, Daley appointed a nine-man "blue ribbon" investigating committee to determine, among other things, if a conspiracy was the cause of the chaos. "If anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Should Looters Be Shot? | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

...prop-driven aircraft with a freewheeling rotor in place of a wing-has virtually disappeared, a victim of its own inefficiencies and the remarkable success of the helicopter. The dream may yet come true. California's McCulloch Aircraft Corp. has successfully test-flown a contemporary Autogiro that is safer than a conventional plane, less expensive than a helicopter, and just about as easy to operate as an automobile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Return of the Autogiro | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

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