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...Wicked World. Had Khrushchev committed the fatal psychological error of protesting too much? When news of Powers' capture first broke, the reaction of many free-world nations was dismay and indignation at Washington. Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Mohammed Ikramullah stiffly declared that, if Soviet charges that Powers' flight began at Peshawar proved true, Pakistan would "lodge a strong protest with the Government of the U.S." With less justification, the Norwegian government did make a formal protest, asked the U.S. "to take all necessary steps to avoid that similar landings are planned in the future." In Japan, where...
They sprint up long ramps and scale aisles like mountain goats to get to their seats on time. They start cheering with the first pitch and continue to the last. So far this year, heart attacks have hit twelve San Francisco Giant fans; five were fatal. Last week City Coroner Henry W. Turkel pleaded for rooters with coronary histories to take things easier at the Giants' new Candlestick Park. But no one seemed to pay much attention to the warning: the Giants were in first place in the National League, thanks in good part to a dour Negro named...
Last week aircraft experts were prepared to release a report telling of a "million-to-one shot" where scientists think St. Elmo's fire proved fatal. The plane: a Trans World Airlines Super Constellation that took off into a stormy Italian sky last June 26 from Milan, bound for New York, and crashed twelve minutes later, killing all of the nine crew members and 59 passengers aboard...
...little less hair-raising. California's Go Kart Club of America and Florida's Grand Prix Kart Club of America have both set up rigorous standards for their races. The Go Kart Club does not allow anyone under 16 to race, claims it has never had a fatal accident in an authorized race. So does the Grand Prix, though its rules permit six-year-olds to race karts held down to 30 m.p.h. and twelve-year-olds to compete in the karts that will turn 85 m.p.h. What both clubs fear is the unsupervised novice who spins around...
...greater freedom of opportunity in Britain than before-a bright but poor man like Lewis Eliot (or C. P. Snow) can make it on brains alone-there is fully as much snobbery in the corridors of power. The wrong word, the wrong wife, the wrong attitude can be fatal-and there are many failures and near failures loitering in the corridors to prove it. But the successes dominate the scene, and they provide a fascinating contrast with most U.S. novels about organization life: they do not feel guilty about being successful. Power can corrupt, and Snow warns that...