Word: safes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This seemed to worry Tito not at all, nor his efficient security police. He let others do his talking. And while he kept cool-and safe-on an inaccessible island in the Adriatic, the Yugoslav comrades talked big and fast. They flatly rejected the Cominform charges as "slanders and fabrications," and countercharged conspiracy "to impair the prestige of the [Yugoslav] Communist Party." Fifteen thousand of them sent off a telegram to Comrade Stalin asking him to remove the "false accusations." The telegram was tied with baby-blue ribbons: "Long live our teacher of love toward the Soviet Union, Comrade Tito...
...Even swimming pools filled with filtered, chlorinated water are not too safe. For seven years Dr. J. Roswell Gallagher kept track of boys who swam and those who didn't in the Phillips Academy pool at Andover, Mass. Number of hospital admissions for respiratory tract infections was 14% greater among the swimmers, he reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. Acute sinusitis was almost twice as high; mumps and measles spread more rapidly among the swimmers. But the total number of days spent in the hospital was about the same for swimmers and nonswimmers: the boys who didn...
Doris Duke ("Richest-girl-in-the -world") Rubirosa arrived safe & sound at her occasional home near Honolulu without the Dominican Ambassador to Argentina, whom she married in Paris only last September. She said that she was just taking a little vacation, and husband Porfirio might turn up later...
Probably the toughest problem of all is how to keep from killing the crew by radiation. As Dr. Kalitinsky puts it: "The radiation intensities encountered in nuclear reactors must be reduced by factors of many billion before they are safe for the human organism...
...comes not from some mysterious ray but from ordinary blast (like high-explosive bombs) and burns (like fire-bombs). An enemy would probably blast and burn, rather than make whole cities radioactive. It would be "inconvenient" to evacuate parts of cities, but Geiger countermen would be around to spot safe areas...