Highway deaths at low point in safer travel era
HAL BOYLE notes the National Safety Council reports a record low traffic death rate of 4.7 per 100 million vehicle miles despite more cars trucks and drivers. The column lampoons urban pollution nostalgia and aging with wry quotes from Martha Washington and Martin Luther while touching on hay fever costs and dietary aims.
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Stalin biography portrays massive 1930s repressions and wartime errors
MOSCOW AP reports a new official biographical sketch within the Soviet Historical Encyclopedia accuses Joseph Stalin of unfounded mass repressions in the 1930s and serious miscalculations in World War II. The 24 page excerpt says purges harmed the party, people, and army, and notes Stalin ignored military warnings and signed a nonaggression pact with Hitler.
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