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Concerning the article on "The Peril of Strontium 90" [May 6], I feel very strongly that we should heed Dr. Schweitzer's warning...
...peril of the entire Administration program, Ike's polite, reasoned arguments did not even hit home among his old friends, the voters. Only one TV network (NBC) carried his speech live, and a Trendex rating showed that only 11.3% were watching (with another 48% not watching anything). TIME correspondents across the U.S. reported that most nonprofessionals just weren't listening. Staunch Ikemen were disappointed. "Believe me," said a Los Angeles insurance executive, "the President didn't change one opinion or one vote." The crusading anti-budgeteers were more belligerent than ever. "As for taking the President...
...season, and the dark and hostile world beyond. In the tribal organization, a man's security lay in his tribal brothers, his wealth in his cattle and women, and his faith in the witch doctor whose juju alone could ward off the infinite peril that beset him on every side. Preoccupied always with the cruel day-to-day realities of getting enough to eat himself and keeping himself from being eaten, the Middle African man-in-the-bush was for the most part unaware of the rich potential of the land beneath his feet. There, waiting to be found...
...nation's foreign problems, he said, color and overshadow the budget problem and other domestic factors; the United Nations, with all its shortcomings, can be ignored only "at our future peril...
Willard Libby was primarily addressing himself to Dr. Albert Schweitzer, the illustrious missionary-physician and Nobel Peace Prizewinner, who had called for an end to H-bomb testing because of the strontium 90 peril. Is it not preferable. Dr. Libby gently asked Dr. Schweitzer, to accept this small risk rather than "the far greater risk, to freedom-loving people everywhere," of slackening "our defenses against the totalitarian forces"-until some method of safeguarded disarmament has been achieved...