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...London, a Foreign Office Under Secretary of State, Lord John Hope, told Parliament that "what is happening in Jordan will pass over,'' a remark that deserved the week's prize for complacency in the face of peril. Pravda added its ruble's worth: "The people of this small country have acquitted themselves as courageous partisans against the new schemes of the imperialistic colonizers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JORDAN: Chemistry of Chaos | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

Today, so much else is going on in Florida that the peril of overemphasizing the playgrounds seems to be passing. Gainesville (pop. 32,000) has a new $600,000 Sperry Rand plant making klystron tubes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: A Place in the Sun | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...Noel Willman) can only snarl the lame retort: "You choose to jest." Then he sounds the charge. Maces mash and broadswords boing. In the end French heads are rolling about the landscape like mothballs at a spring cleaning, while Errol proves, as always, a beryl in peril. He loses nothing but his mustache-but then, what is Errol Flynn without his mustache? As he comes up for the final clinch with the heroine (Joanne Dru), he looks as sapless as Samson on the morning after his lawn was mowed. Or maybe it is only that Errol, at 46, is getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 3, 1955 | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

Such a play, ANTA Producer Robert Whitehead reasoned last April, might prove a special tonic for the peril-surfeited people of France. He hand-picked Skin as his own pet project for inclusion in a "Salute to France." This cultural export (financed by thousands of U.S. donors) plunked down before Parisians the Philadelphia Orchestra. New York City Ballet, two U.S.-sponsored art shows, plus first-class stage productions of Oklahoma! and Medea (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Skin, New Vim | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...believing Soviet Russia is more sinned against than sinning. She thus can elbow the United States out of the Eastern Hemisphere, dismember NATO, neutralize Western Europe, and put across her fake peace-and-disarmament plan which, once completed, would leave her mistress of the world.. Such is the peril. Fortunately, President Eisenhower sees it quite clearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES: SECOND THOUGHTS ON GENEVA | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

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