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...provoking attack, shove away intruders with clubs made of broomsticks cut in half. Cousteau himself once routed a shark by socking it on the snout with his camera. But Cousteau readily concedes that sharks can be unpredictable; one once nipped Art Pinder's stern black and blue. The safest place when sharks prowl by is under water; as scavengers, they are used to snapping up anything floating on the surface...
...Negro's lot. His four-week journey strengthened both of these impressions. "I had no idea what they have to go through," he said. "I literally bawled myself to sleep some nights. I learned that when it is night, when it is dark, then the Negro feels safest. Langston Hughes's line, 'Night coming tenderly/ Black like me,'* has real meaning...
...Council on Drugs. Only 25% of the population has been immunized, yet the tetanus bacillus is present in many open wounds; thus the disease is a clear threat (an average 325 deaths a year) to anyone. The tetanus immunization shot, says Dr. Edsall, is not only one of the safest toxoids known to man, it is also among the most effective: the U.S. Army's tetanus rate was 13 per 100,000 injuries in preimmunization World War I, only twelve cases for 2,500,000 injuries during World...
...Survive. The race turned out to be one of the safest in history, with no fatalities. But cars died like flies. Moss got his Aston out front in the early going, but dropped out with engine trouble at the five-hour mark. Before the race was half over, all the Jaguars were out. Two factory Ferraris were knocked out by mechanical trouble, but the third, piloted alternately by Defending Champions Phil Hill of Santa Monica, Calif, and Belgium's Olivier Gendebien, roared on through the night, built a three-lap lead over two pursuing Astons...
Died. Howard Wilcox Haggard, 67, longtime (1938-56) director of Yale's Laboratory of Applied Physiology, a founder of the Yale Center of Alcohol Studies, who passed dispassionate judgment on both the teetotaler and the lush (Alcohol is "the safest of all sedatives"; "The drunk should be made something not funny"), popularized medical history with Devils, Drugs and Doctors and Mystery, Magic and Medicine; of congestive heart failure; in Fort Lauderdale...