Word: periled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outer surface on entering the denser layers of the atmosphere. I remembered the mishap of Cosmic Ship III, which on Dec. 1, 1960, burned up with its cargo of two dogs. The fate of Pchelka and Mushka had a bitterish taste. Would all systems work normally? Did some unforeseen peril await...
...from Franklin Roosevelt to Jack Kennedy for his dispassionate scientific judgment, he is constantly called on for advice on everything from missile nose cones to nuclear testing. He is no propagandist, nor does he see nuclear-age problems in black and white. He is deeply worried about the doomsday peril of nuclear warfare, but he does not let this emotion-charged subject, about which many scientists are bitterly partisan, drive him to stubborn extremes. In judging nuclear test ban treaties, he recognizes the difficulty of detecting clandestine tests, but he still hopes that the nuclear nations can come to agreement...
...face of a common danger," President Kennedy told the American Newspaper Publishers Association. "This deadly challenge imposes upon our society two requirements of direct concern to both the press and to the President-two requirements which must be reconciled and fulfilled if we are to meet this national peril." Then the President asked his audience to reconsider the meaning of freedom of the press...
Some press observers also saw in the presidential message a wholly unnecessary appeal for added secrecy in Government. "There is no need for further restrictive machinery," editorialized the New York Herald Tribune. "In days of peril especially, the country needs more facts, not fewer. In the long run, competent, thorough and aggressive news reporting is the uncompromising servant of the national interest-even though it may be momentarily embarrassing to the Government...
...their illusions, even when those illusions are scraped away by the sharp edges of reality. For John F. Kennedy, that process has been going on painfully since Inauguration Day. Last week, when a U.S.-backed invasion of Cuba went catastrophically awry, the young President got a lesson about the peril of holding onto his illusions...