Word: periled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congo, underline Berlin, point an arrow at Viet Nam and - voild - an instant rundown of the world's trouble spots. Regular readers of the Sunday New York Times, for example, feel cheated when the ominous-looking Times map of the world shows fewer than a dozen diagonally shaded peril points or a score of fat, black arrows to denote developing crises. But the fact was that last week it was hard to add up all the trouble spots without a cartographer's score card...
...tobacco business faces a dilemma that no huge industry has ever before confronted. The cigarette, its prime product, is increasingly under fire as a peril to life and health; yet it continues to enjoy a king-sized market. While many of the nation's 70 million smokers may be trying to quit, the tobacco industry has no intention of doing so. After the Surgeon General's report, the cigarette makers last week withdrew behind a smokescreen of secrecy and agonized over the next line of defense...
...perhaps the gravest peril Russell sensed was that this was merely a prologue to future measures that could result "in an almost unilateral disarmament that could be ruinous." Added he, in a slap at the Administration: "It is my own belief that a comprehensive test ban that prohibited underground testing, but without adequate inspection rights, would have been entered into, except for the fear that the U.S. Senate would not consent to ratification...
...Real Hooper. Dr. Van Allen is more hopeful. He thinks that careful design of spacecraft, putting fuel, food, batteries and other heavy objects toward the outside as protective shields, will do much to shield astronauts against solar protons without adding much weight. In any case, he says, the peril from flares is not too great. During a 450-day period from October 1959 to February 1961, when he measured protons in space, 21 flares affected the earth. Most of them were not dangerous. But toward the end of November 1960 came three violent solar "events," one of which reached peak...
Failure to wear a life jacket is the main reason for a watery death. Of the 529 fatalities investigated by the U.S. Coast Guard last year, 441 drowned because they were wearing no lifesaving devices. Of the 166 in peril who did have lifesaving devices, 98 were rescued...