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...SERIES of research findings in the 1950's established beyond further doubt that a high proportion of automobile accidents, perhaps especially fatal accidents, involve alcohol. In association with other research establishing the significant pharmacological effect on driving skill and judgment of even low levels of blood alcohol content, and considering that three-quarters of the adult population of the United States uses alcohol in greater or lesser quantities, it readily came to be assumed, in the words of Dr. Julian A. Waller, "that the majority of drinking accidents are caused by the majority of drinking drivers, namely, the social drinkers...
...there is a husband and he's had his second corpary and he hasn't seen his wife in 20 years and she's been in a mental hospital and looks all disheveled. When she walks in he's going to have his third coronary, and that'll be fatal...
Trying for Brecht but never being echt, the film is only a procession of skits, songs, dialogues and newsreels. The lack of story or order need not have been fatal; but the movie is inept even as psychodrama-or as pacifist propaganda. A Maoist girl (Glenda Jackson) quotes endlessly from the Chairman: "A revolution is an act of violence by which one class overthrows another." Then she avows, with straight face: "I believe in China's violent revolution, but I couldn't kick a nun." Sick jokes abound: "Saigon is the only city in the world where garbage...
Robert M. Chanock of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Dis eases proposed an unorthodox explanation. The inherited antibody, he suggested, actually makes babies more vulnerable to the potentially fatal dis ease. First, Dr. Chanock distinguished between several kinds of antibody ("im-munoglobulins"), which immunologists label alphabetically. Only type G passes the placenta and gets into the fetal blood; the others are developed later...
MANCHESTER, N.H., Feb. 18--In the dingy downtown hotel here, where John F. Kennedy began his drive to the White House eight years ago, George Romney's drive to the White House has been dealt another serious blow--and it might be fatal this time...