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...plane (owned by a British firm, Airwork, Ltd.) had its seats arranged in a novel way: backs to the engines, so that passengers faced the tail. Many air experts have long held that this would be safer in case of accidents. As the Hermes cracked open, most of the passengers were hurled from their seats through the huge gash in the plane's body, into the sea. Seven people were almost certainly killed. But 50 got off with nothing worse than a chilly dunking, were quickly rescued by Sicilian fishermen...
Danger on the Side. Primaquine has one peculiarity: it is much safer for white patients than others; Negroes and many Asiatics may develop a form of anemia after relatively small doses. Also, it has to be given in several doses, so it is not the ideal drug for such a vast area of relapsing malaria as India...
Racing up again against threatening weather and a lately arrived team of Italians, the climbers took a longer but safer route, up the Dru's north face and over to the point where they had left off earlier. Nearing the needle-like summit, the second man loosened a great boulder that plummeted so close to Dagory that it ripped off his knapsack and scattered a cascade of bright Jordan almonds down the mountainside. But by late afternoon the four men were perched atop the Dru, waiting for aerial photographers to record their triumph. Europe's last unconquered passage...
...Moon, is being perfected for X-raying hard-to-get-at organs such as the stomach and lower intestines. Using a pinpoint X-ray beam and a scanning system, it throws a brilliant, enlarged image on a TV screen, subjects both patient and radiologist to much smaller and safer doses of X rays than older methods...
Calculated or Unwarranted? Among Baruch's recommendations for a safer, swifter mobilization...