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Surely, the states are conscious of their peril and of the peril to their people. We must no longer remain idle or complacent. The clarion must be sounded for the states to come to their own defense and obtain a restoration of Constitutional government...
...university without football," says Lombardi in disgust, "is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall." Lombardi's next stop-Army-was in no such peril. Head Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik was college football's reigning genius, and besides Lombardi. his staff included such whiz kids as Murray War-math and Paul Dietzel. For five years Lombardi ran the cadets' fast-striking offense-and by West Point standards, most of them were lean years. Army's great All-Americas, Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard, graduated in 1947, and 37 players were expelled when a cribbing...
...million thanks to President Kennedy and to the American people as well for rushing to India's aid in her hour of peril...
...transmitters and hear orders and messages in Urdu. From midweek on, Indians listened to the messages of the advancing Chinese. An added source of information was the sibilant voice of a young Indian woman, who reads all Peking radio broadcasts beamed to India: Indian soldiers nicknamed her the "Yellow Peril...
Subliminally, Tchin-Tchin is a Christian existential fable. The action begins just before Christmas. In material terms, Caesario and Pamela lose everything. In spiritual terms, they die out to the world. Meaning crumbles with their marriages. Thrown into what existentialists call a "situation of extremity" and Christians call "peril of soul," they strive in the "Garden of Eden" for the conditions of Paradise, where Adam and Eve possessed nothing and enjoyed everything...