Word: perilousness
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Secrecy-or Peril? Dr. Peters, who is due to retire from Yale next year, appealed entirely "as a matter of principle." As a Government consultant, he served only from four to ten days yearly (at $39.50 a day plus expenses) passing on applications for Public Health research grants. He admitted having taken part in causes with Communist connections. At three loyalty proceedings, he answered all questions, affirmed his loyalty, and denied under oath that he was a Communist...
...months scientists and newsmen in the U.S. and around the world had been speculating about the peril of "fall-out" after atomic and hydrogen explosions...
Cigar-Shaped Peril. In the Pacific last March, the hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll sent a shower of deadly radioactive dust (mostly pulverized coral) over a vast cigar-shaped area extending 220 miles downwind from the blast. Along a strip up to 20 miles wide, extending 140 miles downwind, the fall-out-if it had come down in a populated area-would have seriously threatened the lives of nearly every human. At a distance of 160 miles the lives of half the people would be threatened; at 190 miles 5% to 10% might die (varying with individual reaction...
...computations are based on the worst possible conditions, i.e., they assume that no one would take protective measures. Paradoxically, old and simple steps are highly effective against the new and horrible peril. Taking shelter in an old-fashioned Kansas cyclone cellar with a 3-ft. ceiling of earth until the fallout is over will reduce the immediate radiation absorbed by a human being to a safe level, even in the worst fallout area...
...Alexander Wiley reminded the President that the White House had "fixed up" the domestic watch industry, but had done nothing for Wisconsin cheese. Alarmed, Leverett Saltonstall spluttered that relief for his Massachusetts watchmakers had been long overdue. And Republican House Leader Charley Halleck added that, come what may, peril-point tariff protection is here to stay. After that exchange, fraught with trouble for a liberalized trade policy, Ike and the legislators got along better...