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Detroit traditionally has stressed style and speed in automobiles ahead of safe ty. But considering the carnage on the highways (49,000 traffic deaths last year), and under continued pressure from the Government, the industry has been moving gradually to make cars safer. Last week the automen took an other step. General Motors announced that it is adding two new safety features as standard equipment on all its ]967 models, which will appear this fall...
...deaths ascribed to the short-acting sulfas, which have to be taken four, to six times a day. FDA "hawks," who favor drastic action, wanted to pull the long-acting sulfas off the market on the grounds that the short-acting drugs are equally effective and are safer. Congressional committee spokesmen and other Sadusk foes, who have been leaking confidential FDA documents to selected newsmen, accuse Sadusk of a) having dragged his feet for at least a year before taking any action, and b) having watered down the final action to a mere label warning that use of shorter-acting...
...November crashes of two Boeing 727 jets may result in significant new precautions to make airline travel safer. The Civil Aeronautics Board, which last week issued a preliminary finding on the disasters-one near Cincinnati, the other at Salt Lake City-noted that only 52 passengers in the two tragedies got out alive, while 101 died...
...When the revolutionaries took over in April 1964, Brazil was approaching bankruptcy, with foreign-exchange reserves of less than $150 million, and a cost of living that was soaring at the fantastic rate of 144% a year. By last week Brazil's foreign exchange was back to a safer $300 million, and the inflationary price rise had been cut more than two-thirds to 45% for 1965-"still pretty bad," says one Washington official, "but for Brazil that's sensationally good...
...from living, yet virtually nothing from my life." The secret, no doubt, lies somewhere in the ruins of old Austria-Hungary-but that was in a foreign country, and besides, the youth is dead. A sad émigré survives, whose melancholy wisdom it is to say: "It is safer to dream of the past than of the future...