Word: rasmussen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...antique car moving majestically down the slow lane on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Duesenberg, Auburn, Cord, Marmon, Stutz, Fierce-Arrow and Franklin have the glamour of old movie stars-and are usually better preserved. The value of these classics now runs into six figures. American Classic Cars by Henry Rasmussen (Picturama/Schocken; unpaged; $24.50) allows the subcompact set to relive the golden age of the luxury automobile. A look at masterpieces as rare as a glimpse of Garbo...
...report on nuclear safety authored by members of the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) asserts that the Rasmussen Report, released in 1975 by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), contains substantially understated assessments of the safety of atomic power...
...Douglas W. Cooper, assistant professor of Environmental Physics in the Faculty of Public Health, who served as a consultant to NRC, said yesterday, "Subsequent analysis of the Rasmussen Report showed that it would, if anything, overstate the results of a nuclear accident...
...always demand proof of vaccinations. Also, says Dr. Jean Lockhart, an official of the American Academy of Pediatrics in Evanston, Ill., if children are not inoculated early in life, they are likely to be left unprotected because they no longer see doctors as frequently. Adds Dr. Colette Rasmussen of the Cook County, Ill., public health department: "Too often the disease is looked upon as a sickness all children once had, as a kind of joke." Unfortunately, measles is no laughing matter. While the overwhelming majority of victims recover in a week to ten days, some develop pneumonia or encephalitis...
...expected Yale to take us on the start, and then we expected to row through them on the settle--like last week. But we couldn't in that water," number six Gail Rasmussen said after the race...