Word: perilousness
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...sweltering tarmac of Lagos' Ikeja Airport last week, ground crewmen unloaded relief materials from the 13 nations cooperating in the effort to help save 1,000,000 or more I bo tribesmen who are in peril of starvation. Despite occasionally grudging cooperation from the Nigerian government (relief planes, for instance, were charged landing fees of up to $450), the effort was achieving some success. As work progressed, General Yakubu Gowon, Nigeria's military leader, answered questions from TIME Correspondent James Wilde. In his first individual interview since the end of the civil war, Gowon maintains a determinedly optimistic...
...matter of shared history, parallel views of civilization, common traditions of parliamentary democracy and respect for individual rights. When Churchill referred to the relationship in his famed "Iron Curtain speech" at Missouri's Westminster College, he foresaw joint U.S.-British cooperation against the looming Soviet peril, which ultimately might lead to common Anglo-American citizenship. Nobody would go that far today...
...mind "each way six times," but had finally decided not to seek Republican Senator George Murphy's office. The temptation, he admitted, had been great. "Can you imagine what it would mean," he mused, "to have this state represented by a birthright member of the yellow peril?" In Boston, the surviving Kennedy brother, Teddy, was challenged by former State Republican Committee Chairman Josiah A. Spaulding, who announced his candidacy for Senator from Massachusetts...
...opportunity. Besieged by criticism and budgetary cutbacks, the space agency announced last week that it would have to trim 50,000 men from its 190,000-man work force, already down by half from the 1966 high of 400,000. Admitted NASA Administrator Thomas Paine: "We are at the peril point...
...than Nixon's hoped-for ceiling of $192.9 billion. The fat $5.8 billion surplus that the Administration once so cheerily anticipated will probably get much skinnier as the economy slows down and tax collections shrink with it. Nixon damned the Democratic-controlled Congress for putting his surplus in peril. "In the very session when the Congress reduced revenues by $3 billion, it increased spending by $3 billion more than I recommended," he said...