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...facts of the case are as follows: Mercy Hospital is a Catholic hospital which has a rule against sterilization. This rule is known to the doctors before they send a patient to the hospital; it is known also that if the rule is broken, the facilities of the hospital will no longer be available to the doctor. Dr. Stephens signed a promise to abide by the rule not to perform an operation for sterilization. Knowing that such an operation would close the hospital to him, he nevertheless performed it. The facilities of the hospital have, therefore, been closed...
Saved by Curves. Present-day windows, says the CAA, are strong enough to carry present-day pressures, and at the comparatively low altitudes (18,000 to 20,000 ft.) now flown by airliners, a passenger is unlikely to be captured by a rush of air to a broken window. There has been one such accident, but it did not turn out too badly. An airline hostess was sucked to a window, but her hips were wide enough to stick in the frame and save her from being popped like a cork into the empty air.* The pressure difference (only...
...There have been several cases of navigators blown out of broken observation domes and lost...
Dean Small charged that Miss Labenow had broken release dates. This is a serious accusation in the newspaper business. Both Miss Labenow and the CRIMSON challenged Dean Small to cite an example; Miss Small replied that she couldn't, but again asserted, "She did break them." After the meeting, Joan Projansky told the CRIMSON, "Since I have been Publicity Director, Debby has not violated release dates." The next morning, in a private telephone call, Miss Projansky added: "Miss Small doesn't understand the meaning of 'breaking a release.' What she meant was that Debby printed a story before Radcliffe would...
Miss Small asked Radcliffe Student Government to hold an open meeting Thursday afternoon at which she would answer questions concerning the disciplinary action. She said Miss Labenow had broken release dates. She said she had no record of any such occurrences and could not recall a definite instance. Miss Projansky said later that Miss Labenow has not broken a single release date this term, since Miss Projansky has been Publicity Director, and suggested that Miss Small had perhaps misunderstood the term "release date...