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...Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, a panel of Spanish sages looked at Columbus' plan for a voyage to the Indies, and in 1490 came up with six good reasons why it was impossible. So many centuries after the creation, they concluded triumphantly, it was unlikely that anyone could find hitherto unknown lands of any value. This negative reaction was similar to the learned argument that greeted Galileo when he reported that Jupiter had moons. "Jupiter's moons are invisible to the naked eye," said a group of Aristotelian professors, "and therefore can have no influence on the earth...
Congressional concern for consumer protection also led to a far-reaching Occupational Health and Safety Act. The law established federal supervision over working conditions, something hitherto left largely to state regulation (except for coal mines). The law aims to reduce the shocking annual toll of on-the-job accidents: 14,500 workers killed and 2,200,000 injured. As organized labor wanted, the act gives the Secretary of Labor the power to fix safety standards for all factories, farms and construction projects involved in interstate commerce. As businessmen urged, the act leaves enforcement to a three-member commission...
...during the previous six months. Luckily, his psychiatrist was Harvard Medical School's Armand M. Nicholi II, who had been studying and treating college cyclists for years. From the way the young man talked about his machine, Nicholi easily concluded that his patient was the victim of a hitherto unrecognized emotional ailment: the motorcycle syndrome...
Something Savage. As Crankshaw points out in his foreword, Khrushchev's remembrances constitute "an extraordinary, a unique historical document" that "takes us straight into what has been hitherto a forbidden land of the mind." In Khrushchev's words: "I tell these stories because, unpleasant as they may be, they contribute to the self-purification of our party. I address myself to the generations of the future in hope that they will avoid the mistakes of the past...
...arsonists have sown genuine fear among students, who generally despise violence as much as anyone else. At the same time, most campuses have promulgated tough rules against unpeaceful dissenters. They have beefed up their security forces and equipped them with sophisticated electronic equipment to frustrate intruders and identify the hitherto anonymous rock thrower in the crowd. While such measures have engendered a great deal of student resentment, they have helped to keep the peace. WANING ISSUES. There are fewer and fewer national issues for students to grab hold of. Until last week's bombing, the Viet Nam War seemed...