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...FATAL IMPACT, by Alan Moorehead. History becomes moral drama in this engrossing study of the effect of the European Enlightenment on the primitive societies of the Pacific...
...panel truck and an automobile collided at Memorial Drive and Western Avenue, a block east of the married students' dorms, at 3 p.m. The impact of the collision flipped the Oldsmobile through a green iron fence and into ten feet of the Charles...
...FATAL IMPACT, by Alan Moorehead. Writing in the wake of Captain Cook, Bougainville and other great Pacific navigators and explorers, the superbly skilled journalist-historian Alan Moorehead takes soundings of philosophic depth-savage and civilized man in confrontations unresolved to this...
...Pass, 230 miles south of Hanoi, one of the three most important supply funnels to the south. The bombs sent huge avalanches cascading into the pass, blocking the vital artery. As a bonus, some of the bombs were equipped with time fuses set to explode days after impact and thus inhibit digging-out operations. The word was that from now on, the B-52s will be used over the north whenever needed. Taking advantage of the traffic piled up behind Mu Gia by the avalanches, U.S. planes periodically bombed and strafed stalled convoys, sending gigantic fireballs into...
Ford urged legislators to consider carefully "the economic impact upon our industry" of several auto-safety laws that have been proposed. "If they do something that is irrational," he warned, "they can upset the economy of this country very rapidly . . . All I hope is that these gentlemen in Washington will consider the problems that they may force on the automobile industry in depth before they pass a law . . . We are in trouble, but in fighting our way out of it, we are going to do the right thing for the consumer and we are going to make cars safer...