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...basement inventor who was lending real color to the struggle. One offered a drawstring bag to be yanked over the head and cinched up tight in times of peril. A patent-medicine mixer gave the public "U-236 Atomic Shock Cure" for a while, but the Public Health Service frowned-it consisted of table salt, bicarbonate of soda and water...
...months in Johns Hopkins Hospital, following a stroke and heart attack which doctors predicted would be fatal, H. L. Mencken checked out for home, sardonically tipped his hat to the Y.M.C.A. as he passed, then asked what was playing at the local theater. Told it was Tarzan's Peril, Mencken replied firmly, "I shall not be there...
...session room of the Third District Court of Eastern Middlesex, which is "holden at Cambridge" six mornings a week "for the transaction of Criminal Business." Most of them had come in response to the small white traffic slips they held, each of which warns "Hereof fail not at your peril." Five men who had never received a formal summons sat locked in the jury pen at one side of the bench. And three blue-jacketed ushers stood ready to boost people to that part of the courtroom demanded by procedure...
...prices, promised to crack down on profiteers, pointedly noted that the views of farm ers and workers "must be represented in meeting national problems." More impor tant, he said: "Wage policies, too, are being modified again ..." But were they being modified enough to satisfy labor? Just to suggest the peril of not conceding labor enough, James B. Carey promptly threatened a strike of his International Union of Electrical Work ers at Charlie Wilson's own General Electric. "From our experience with Wilson, said Carey, "we would be more convinced to see some implementing rather than hear statements...
...dramatic. Britain, appalled by Eisenhower's first failure to give her credit for her effort, breathed an almost audible sigh of relief. Italians remembered their past glories. The non-Communists of France were lifted up. The whole of Western Europe, living under the shadow of the great peril, was more heartened than at any time in four years of daily threats, unending scares. Eisenhower had presented no certainties either to Europe or to his countrymen. He had offered only a risk. Little had happened except that Eisenhower had said what he had to say-and the Western world felt...