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...Justice Holmes once said that as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived." Mark Howe, who had been Holmes' law clerk in 1933-34 and was his biographer, stood in no peril. Howe combined meticulous scholarship in law and history with a life of political and social involvement...
...draft has never been popular, but has long been tolerated as a necessary evil. It is more insidious than that. Conscription is a totalitarian concept, out of place in a liberal society except in time of national peril. Forcing a man to devote two years of his life to servitude of the state should not be dismissed as a legitimate and unchallengeable exercise of governmental authority...
...Johnson Administration has finally brought the consular treaty it signed with the Soviet Union in 1964 to the Senate for ratification. The treaty, unfortunately has been heavily criticized by a bloc of Senators more concerned with a chimerical Red peril than resumption of the thaw in U.S.-Soviet relations...
...looking 5-ft. 4-in. blonde tumble out of a highflying airplane, crash a speedboat onto a beach at full throttle, ride a wagon hauled by galloping horses, plunge through an opening drawbridge, fall off a roof, and accidentally lean on a dynamite plunger. At the moment of greatest peril, the pixy hollered something like: "Stamp out cramped compacts!" or "Kick the dull driving habit!" or "Don't follow the leader. Drive it!" After which she miraculously escaped disaster-crying "Join the Dodge Rebellion...
Radioisotopes are now commonly introduced into the body's various systems to allow doctors to trace functions and spot malfunctions with sensitive scanners. But radioactivity is the peril as well as the point of using the particles, reported Quinn, since too much of it during the testing can harm the patient. The ideal, therefore, is to find a radioactive substance with a short half-life that will decay quickly after passing on the information doctors need. The problem is that the unstable substances live so briefly they must be manufactured as short a time as possible before their...