Word: fatalism
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...transport tragedies, 5,300 miles and 34 hours apart, last week brought 1960's grim record to eight major fatal crashes, 326 dead...
...boiler, which eventually blows its top through third, second and first-class cabins and rips a sizable hole in the side of the ship. The captain orders the lifeboats lowered, and as bulkhead after bulkhead bursts, he makes his desperate calculations: in 50 minutes the Claridon will take the fatal plunge...
...harassing them. Indeed, the inspectors, backed heartily by Quesada, seem to materialize in cockpits like eager gremlins, ready to slap a fine on a pilot for the slightest infraction of the rule book. With each infraction, Quesada gets tougher. After a Pan American Boeing 707 started into a near fatal dive while its pilot was back chinning with the passengers, Quesada enforced a long-disregarded regulation requiring all pilots to stay in their cockpits except for good and sufficient reason...
...incessantly trained in their trade, realize and accept the necessity for top safety standards and sharp enforcement. While they are helpless to prevent demented passengers from lugging explosives aboard their planes, they remember too well the score of near misses in the air and the ballooning number of fatal crashes. The airlines carried 380 million passengers in the past ten years, and killed only 1,300. But the U.S. death toll alone since January 1958 is an alarming...
...wait for an infection to clear before they could operate. There was no immediate indication of cancer. But cancer of this ambiguous gland strikes 24,000 U.S. men each year, kills about 16,000, thus ranks second only to lung cancer (30,000 deaths) as the most commonly fatal cancer in males...