Word: fatalism
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...monkey species used in vaccine manufacture are loaded with native viruses. The worst of these is Herpesvirus simiae, or "B virus," close kin to man's benign cold-sore virus. It apparently gives the monkey nothing worse than fever blisters; in man it is almost invariably fatal. In Salk vaccine these B virus particles were killed by formaldehyde, but in making an oral vaccine of live, attenuated viruses, no inactivating process is used...
Ever since Pasteur made his epochal discovery that inactive virus could give protection against rabies, thousands of bite victims each year have started the course of 14 shots. Many have quit because of severe and painful allergic reactions. Worse, the injections carried the danger of fatal encephalitis or paralysis, because they contained material from rabbit brains. Last week researchers in New York City's Department of Health reported that a modified vaccine made by growing the virus in fertilized duck eggs gives quicker protection, is safer and causes few unpleasant reactions...
...test pilots had purposely flown test Electras into turbulent air at high speeds. Apparently because the planes' struts had not been weakened, nothing happened. But when company engineers, in wind-tunnel tests, purposely weakened nacelle struts to about the same condition as those on the crashed Electras, the fatal chain reaction began. The company had its answer. During all of this testing time, the Federal Aviation Agency had allowed airlines to fly Electras so long as their speed was held to a conservative 329 m.p.h. at 15,000 feet, thus removing one of the known factors in the trouble...
...Confessions of a Young Man, George Moore wrote: "Ireland is a fatal disease-fatal to Englishmen and doubly fatal to Irishmen." Moore's diagnosis lies at the heart of this exciting new novel by Gabriel Fielding, who, under his real name of Alan Barnsley, is a practicing British physician. In earlier books, Brotherly Love and In the Time of Greenbloom, Author Fielding dealt with the family background of John Blaydon, a British schoolboy, and carried him through an adolescent love affair. When the girl was brutally raped and murdered by a wandering psychopath, John's sanity was saved...
...come equipped with megaphones. No one talks; everyone blasts out endless editorials-on the evils of TV. Republicans, Democrats, the American Dream-not excluding Ridge's raven-haired exwife, at whom Ridge makes embarrassing /fl«-passes throughout the novel. Ridge puts the finger on Trumpet's fatal lack-"It had nothing left to say"-but scarcely lifts an editorial finger to remedy the situation...