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...letter to the committee chairmen who would have to smooth out the differences between the House and Senate bills, Assistant Attorney General Peyton Ford warned that the House amendments were "fraught with peril, not only to the bureau, but also to the country itself." What particularly worried Ford Was the provision making the FBI responsible not only for investigating all employees and scholarship holders of the foundation, but for actually determining their loyalty as well...
...joint instruction now since the war and a swarm of Annex women has pushed its collective foot into the College door; now that the first barriers are down (alas), this plague of women will move on to the clubs and organizations of Harvard. These girls, like the Yellow Peril, will sweep over the organizations. The resulting "feminization" will be the undoing of the Harvard club...
Arthur W. Arundel '50, riding his chestnut gelding Red Peril, captured second place in the annual Point to Point Five Mile Steeplechase yesterday at Warrenton, Virginia. Arundel's mount finished close behind the winner, Mallory Nash's Lord...
...Washington to get more, more, more," said Steinkraus at a Cincinnati luncheon . . . "If we keep on this spending spree at the rate we are going . . . our tax burden will become well-nigh intolerable." The nation, he added, is "very near that point which economists refer to as the 'peril point...
Allies Split. The hydrogen bomb and the story of Communist Fuchs were the developments that seized the headlines. But there were other items in the news that also had prospects of peril. England and the U.S., allies in defense of a common way of life, seemed to be heading down diverging roads in Asia; the Chinese Communists, after a leisurely four days, had accepted Britain's recognition; by harshly treating its consular officials, they had made sure of U.S. hostility. To compound these complications, the Russians reached across Communist China last week to extend official recognition to the Communist...