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...policies toward Chiang in June 1950, when the Korean war began. In one sense it did: by ordering the Seventh Fleet to patrol the Formosa straits, and by sending Chiang a new batch of U.S. military advisers, Harry Truman recognized that a Communist Formosa would be a military hazard at the rear of the U.N. forces in Korea...
...newly photographed ultraviolet waves will be a major hazard for future space pilots in flights above the atmosphere. Human tissue, developed beneath the sheltering air blanket, will probably be injured by ultraviolet unless well protected. "I'd hate to be up there for an hour," said Dr. Howard Edwards, who worked on the project. "In fact, I'd hate to be up there...
Your historical note on President William Harrison [TIME, Jan. 12], who died after reading his inaugural address bareheaded in the rain, recalls that the tradition of baring the head has long been a hazard to men in public life. F.D.R. was laid low for several days following his election because he held his hat in salute to the crowds during most of the motor trip down from Hyde Park. In 1941 he was again incapacitated by one of his few illnesses after he stood for an hour bareheaded during Armistice Day ceremonies. King George V contracted his final illness...
...atomic furnace will heat the boilers of its steam turbines. This stuff will be dangerous. Even the best modern pumps spring leaks, and the smallest leak of radioactive water would make the submarine's cramped quarters uninhabitable. Westinghouse now has an answer to this atomic-age hazard: a "canned" pump, with all its electrical parts locked tight in stainless steel. The whole pump is buried in the water pipe, needing no seals or packing that can leak. One such buried pump has been running steadily at full load for 13,000 hours (1½ years...
...began. Haled into domestic relations court for violating the compulsory-education law, Attorney Myers outlined his test case. Said he: "We want to determine whether the . . . board . . . has a legal right to force parents to send their children to filthy, insanitary, crumbling schoolhouses that are a physical and mental hazard...