Word: fatalism
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...will the long coats-but not yet," said the Ohrbach buyer. "His timing is off." Said Bonwit's buyer, gazing at the long coats: "We're not ready for that sort of thing." For the British, the hemline dropped like a bomb. "It would be fatal!" cried one British designer. "I've just made my spring collection-all short. Shops have just ordered their autumn stock-all short." Protested a Bond Street fashion buyer: "The leggy feeling is still strong, and nobody is going to accept a drastic change...
...shun unnecessary risks, doctors seem to jettison their own advice as soon as they take up flying. In 1964-65, reports the Federal Aviation Agency, 30 U.S. physician pilots died in crashes; in ten cases, the doctors' families died with them. As a result, flying doctors had a fatal-accident rate four times as high as the average for all other private pilots...
California, which leads the nation with 250,000 registered cycles, compiled a grisly record in 1965 with 263 fatal accidents (some involving more than one death) for motorcycles and 13 for scooters. Ironically, the accident rate is lower on California's roaring freeways than at the low speeds of snaking mountain roads or intersections of Los Angeles' labyrinthine streets. In New York City, the very density of traffic slows cycles to a crawl and lowers the accident rate still further. Wet pavements are even worse on two wheels than on four: San Francisco makes its motorcycle cops dismount...
...comes to town with enough pink dismissal slips to put most of Mama's boarders on relief. Ultimately, Alva follows her lover-man to the Big City where she tries both streetwalking and light housekeeping with Redford before fleeing into a rainstorm one wretched night to catch a fatal cold. Sister Willie, in a teary epilogue, attributes Alva's off-screen death to "lung affection...
Among these rivals, none has come back more dramatically from its dark days than TWA. It came the hard way-and by a circuitous route. TWA is one of the oldest and proudest of U.S. airlines. Yet only five years ago, the company seemed to be in a fatal dive. It was de moralized, litigation-lamed, and desperately short of the jets by then necessary to stay alive. TWA went into the red by no less than $38.7 million in 1961. Yet that same year, two happy things happened. First, the capricious hand of Billionaire Howard Hughes was lifted from...