Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officials have been shopping with France, West Germany, Spain and Japan for someone to restore the island's disintegrating transportation system. Havana bus parks are filled with rusting U.S. buses for which no parts are available. In 1962, Czechoslovakia sent several hundred Skoda buses, but they soon fell victim to Cuba's tropical weather, its potholed roads and hot-rodding drivers. Of some 1,600 buses operating in Havana in 1961, only about half are still in service, so few that Cubans go to work packed like cattle into trucks...
...Federal Trade Commission was already reviewing its regulations pertaining to cigarette advertising, with a view to tightening them. Paced by CBS, all TV networks decided to re-examine their advertising standards. Oregon Senator Maurine Neuberger (whose husband had been a cancer victim) plans to introduce two bills aimed at forcing manufacturers to state nicotine and tar content. What more will result from the committee's call for "remedial action" remains to be seen...
...many forms of leukemia, the blood-cell factory inside the victim's bone marrow produces too many white blood cells, of the wrong kind, and too fast. To get the marrow back on a proper production schedule, medical investigators have tried many ingenious, drastic and daring experiments. Now five Paris doctors believe they have found a possible answer in the blood and bone marrow of a patient's relatives...
...closes the garage door, runs a hose into his car from the tail pipe, and sits inside the car with the engine running. Carbon monoxide, in such heavy doses, is one of the deadliest of gases. It gets into the blood and starves the brain of vital oxygen. The victim turns red and usually dies. But doctors have been arguing for decades about the effects of small doses of monoxide poison over long periods. Only recently have they begun to collect evidence that such small doses may do permanent damage to the brain...
Whom could future disaster victims sue? The Federal Tort Claims Act establishes that the Government is liable at most for proved negligence of its employees. Contractors, except a few working for the Atomic Energy Commission or doing Defense Department research, are on their own; if their products are at fault in a catastrophe, they can be liable for enough to outstrip any conceivable insurance and bankrupt them many times over. But to collect even a few cents on the dollar, the victim would probably face the staggering job of pinning down in court exactly which of perhaps dozens of contractors...