Word: perilousness
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President Truman, an ex-captain, had the courage to fire MacArthur when the occasion demanded. Now, with the peril greater, why can't Eisenhower, an ex-general, show the same courage with the bickering Pentagon crowd...
COPPER PRODUCERS are pressuring Congress for higher import walls. They want 4?-a-lb. tariff when prices fall to "peril point" of 30?, instead of current tariff (suspended until next July) of 1.8? a Ib. at peril point of 24?. With copper now selling at 25?, Congress is leaning toward peril-point boost, but frowns at lifting tariff itself...
...storm of cries from the G.O.P. National Committee. The Chicago affair was a near sellout with Ike's name on the billboard, and his thought-of cancellation seemed to confirm the suspicions of discouraged Midwest Republicans that Ike does not care much about the party's peril in this year's congressional elections. After the complaints deluged the White House, Ike changed his mind, laid plans to turn up at Chicago in time to deliver a 15-or 20-minute speech, head back to Washington the next morning...
Agreeing that "the country may indeed be in grave peril" and that "more attention must be paid . . . to the matter of keeping our sciences strong," Pusey claims that "Harvard has long been deeply committed to this task...
...brain concussion cannot tolerate alcohol for a long time afterward. Others cannot tolerate it if they have taken antihistamine or ataractic drugs. It is not that the drugs themselves are dangerous, but that individuals with abnormal sensitivity react dangerously. Steady use of barbiturates is a more predictable peril, says Dr. Meerloo: it makes the midbrain more sensitive to the intoxication of chronic alcoholism, and many alcoholics, far from being put to sleep by barbiturates, become wildly excited after taking them...