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After 20 years of syndicated punditing, Columnist Walter Lippmann last week let readers in on a handy trick of his trade. "No one can have been writing for newspapers for a long time," he wrote, "without being fully aware of how much safer it is to prophesy disaster than to venture to express a hope. It is safe to be gloomy. If one prophesies disaster and it happens, one has been a true prophet. And if it does not happen, one is readily forgiven and may even suggest that but for the warning the disaster would have happened...
After repeating the experiment many times, Swearingen decided that if a passenger is sitting less than 7½ inches from the window (i.e., in the window seat) he will be "captured" by the outrushing air. Farther away (i.e., in the aisle seat), a passenger would be safer...
...door, six carnation-wearing salesmen handed out free chances on a television set, plus a crisp sales chat--Smarter, Safer, Greater in Value, one-third down and 15 months to pay, and look at that chrome. As Pesky and Harris and the salesmen moved among the crowd wearing neat name-plates and dispensing raffle tickets the affair took on the conviviality of a bargain basement. And bargains there were, judging from numerous dark nods toward Porter Square's used car lot across the street. When trading closed for the day, only one of the new cars remained unsold and there...
Motherhood has been getting safer & safer for the past 100 years-ever since Lister introduced antiseptic methods and Semmelweis showed how to check the spread of childbed fever. The Journal of the American Medical Association reported last week that in 1949 the U.S. set a proud record by becoming the first large nation with a maternal death rate of less than one per 1,000 live births. In 1948 the rate was 1.2, and in 1933 (before the sulfas and antibiotics...
This nation will be far safer in the next two years if the Democratic party continues to control both houses of Congress...