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...also spent a lot of time swimming at the nearby beaches, going to the theater and movies, and confessed to a friend that "Algiers is fatal even to the most single-minded student." In 1945, at the end of World War II, Moslems staging an independence celebration in Setif clashed with the police and Europeans. Some 5,000 Moslems were killed, and the French began arresting everyone in sight, including Benkhedda and his fellow committee members on the Moslem Students Union. He spent six months in grim Barberousse prison-which the F.L.N. promises to raze and replace with a park...
...every fatal accident of any aircraft-is exhaustively investigated by the CAB's 171-man Bureau of Safety, which employs experts on practically everything having to do with flying. If even more expertise is needed, the bureau is empowered by law to call for help from all Government agencies, including the armed services, the Bureau of Standards and the FBI. Its technical detectives do not always "get their man." Yet, in the last ten years CAB has found the probable cause in 96% of all cases investigated...
...inherent vice in all swept-wing jets-the tendency to yaw, or slip sidewise. Sometimes, in yawing, the jets nearly roll over in a frightening phenomenon pilots call the "Dutch roll"-and eyewitness reports suggested that American One might have done just that. Two of the four previous fatal 707 crashes were attributed to yaw (the fifth fatal 707 crash, of a Sabena Airlines plane in Belgium, killed 73 people last year, and has never been explained). But all of the four crashes occurred on training flights, when the Boeing 707 was deliberately put through a series of the most...
Stomach cancer, which is often undetected until it is far advanced and likely to prove fatal, shows puzzling variations in frequency. The poor, says Dr. Moore, are more likely to get it than the rich. This suggests that the recent decrease reflects an improvement in the diets of the poor. At Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo, ethnic groups with high rates of stomach cancer have only one dietary peculiarity in common: they eat a lot of cabbage. Dr. Moore comments: "Fortunately, the consumption of cabbage has been decreasing for several decades...
...some vicious meows. Dorothy also has an inclination to be hilariously wrong. With authority and certitude, she misplaces geographical landmarks, mispronounces French words, and misnames the heroes of history. WOR listeners tune her in with something of the same impulse that makes crowds gather at a fatal accident. When one correspondent caught her flatfooted in a factual error, she noted his return address and sniffed characteristically: "If he's so smart, what's he still doing in Perth Amboy, New Jersey?" Says one regular: "I listen to Dorothy and Dick every morning just to get the poisons...