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...much of the past year. Furthermore, steelmen take the chance of turning their customers increasingly to lower-priced imports, which rose by 1,000,000 tons last year, and to steel substitutes, which last year displaced 2,000,000 tons of steel. Wheeling wisely tried to avoid this peril by limiting its rise to products for which domestic demand is strong and import pressure is weak-sheets and strips widely used in cars and construction...
Then came Hitler. By 1945, when this Walt Disney picture begins, Allied bombs are bursting in the courtyard of the academy and Russian columns are rushing toward Vienna. The Lipizzan stallions stand in mortal peril, but the Führer refuses to let them leave the city-the move might be interpreted as an admission of defeat. Colonel Alois Podhajsky (Robert Taylor), commandant of the academy, rebelliously horsenaps his own herd, ships it to safety in an isolated village. So much for the stallions, but what about the Lipizzan mares? They are prancing through Bohemia like a bunch of damn...
...revolution in Iraq. De Carvalho hied himself to the fighting in Yemen, where he went deeper into royalist territory than any other U.S. correspondent. It was rough going, at a "tropic latitude and a mountain altitude," with nights freezing and days burning. It wasn't only the peril of dodging Egyptian fire; once, miles from the front, a bullet whizzed by, and then as he flattened himself, an other. Out from the brush, rifle in hand, came a woman. "I thought he was an Egyptian," she said. Among the galabiya-wearing Yemeni, only Egyptians are known to wear pants...
...probably the most powerful woman skater who has ever existed." Packing a muscular 140 lbs. on her 5-ft. 6-in. frame, Sjoukje Dijkstra does not try to dazzle the judges with her femininity. She cuts the ice with her athletic ability and prim, peril feet routines. Other skaters warm up in buttons and bows, but Sjoukje wears a blue sweatsuit marked "Nederland." "It's just working hard that makes you good." she says, and when she is in training-as she is six hours a day, five days a week, seven months a year-she has no time...
...Physicist Pickering and his JPL teammates watched over their creation like anxious parents. There was so much that could go wrong. Materials that are well behaved in the atmosphere may be useless in space. Even some metals turn to vapor and must be used with caution. Another peril is heat. Space itself has no temperature (having no matter that can be hot or cold), but each object in space assumes a temperature that depends on the balance between the radiation that it absorbs and the radiation that it emits. A dab of paint (if it stays in place) can spell...