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Turning his attention to the Cuban crisis, Hughes said that "reason and moderation and the interests of humanity in the end prevailed," but reminded his audience that "the peril has been removed temporarily; the arms race continues...
...eliminate the danger of nuclear war, both sides ought to pledge not to use nuclear weapons in response to a conventional elimination of the "deadly peril" posed by overseas intermediate range missile bases, and said that the Russian people were threatened by our bases in Turkey in the same way that Americans been threatened by Soviet missiles in Cuba...
...political battles at state and local levels. U.S. voters tend to feel helpless about the national economy and national tax policies; it's all too big to be understandable. They can, however, do something about state taxes-and a candidate can ignore that fact only at his peril...
...William Arrowsmith, 38, translator in 1959 of the lusty Satyricon of Petronius. To many Arion readers, Arrowsmith's version of Aristophanes' rollicking Knights' Prologue made the first issue worth its price ($1.50). Editor W. Robert Jones of the staider Classical Journal calls Arion "most provident in peril, courage and hope...
...during Franklin Roosevelt's Administration, have long been as obsolete as the flivver. Economic policy is an obvious and integral part of foreign policy-for which the U.S. Constitution assigned the President responsibility. Yet the reciprocal trade laws allowed the President almost no flexibility. They were studded with "peril point" limitations, dictated by protectionists, that often negated their basic purpose...