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Corvair Controversy. The California Supreme Court defined the new doctrine even more sweepingly in the 1963 case of a man who had yearned to own a much advertised power lathe. His wife bought him one; it promptly shot a hunk of wood into his head. In upholding a verdict based on faulty design, the court ruled that injured consumers need not claim a theoretical "implied warranty" but may rely simply on "strict liability in tort." Said the court: "A manufacturer is strictly liable in tort when an article he places on the market, knowing that it is to be used...
...decide to do more of same. A study of the 34 new shows and 58 holdovers scheduled for the new fall season shows that spies are up, and so is witchcraft. Westerns are making a modest comeback, and literally every second offering will be a situation comedy. A healthy hunk of it all will be in color: NBC will color cast 96% of its shows...
Flowing Westward. Not since U.S. Steel decided in 1905 to put a plant on the hunk of Lake Michigan sand that is now Gary, Ind., has a private project had such opportunity to change an entire area. The mill will start off employing 2,500 people in a plant for finishing rolled steel shipped from the East. Jones & Laughlin hopes that the plant will eventually be completely integrated from blast furnaces on up, expects it to generate satellite manufacturing industries to use its steel. Says Jones & Laughlin Chairman Charles M. Beeghly: "We are talking about the largest single development...
...Libby of U.C.L.A., offer the most ingenious theory so far. After disposing of previous guesses (If it was a meteor, where is the crater? If it was a comet, why was it not seen approaching?), Libby & Co. suggest that what caused the big bang may well have been a hunk of antimatter that must have wandered into the solar system from some distant galaxy...
People who think the Far Right took the ten count last November should visit California's 27th Congressional District. This grotesquely shaped hunk of Los Angeles County was designed, by a Democratic legislature, to get rid of a Republican Congressman who was a member of the John Birch Society. The voters cooperated in 1962. But in 1964, the Democratic Congressman retired, and the Republican candidate--who stands perhaps 1 to the left of Birch--won. The 27th was one of four Congressional Districts outside the South to go Democratic in 1962 and Republican in 1964. And it is no coincidence...