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...speak today in an hour of national peril and national opportunity. Before my term has ended, we shall have to test anew whether a nation organized and governed such as ours can endure. The outcome is by no means certain...
...mechanics took the diesel off its base and tried to weld the crack. Part way through the job, the welding torch ran out of oxygen. Now Vostok was really in peril. Its only hope was a cylinder of oxygen dropped from an airplane the previous autumn. It had broken loose from its parachute and plunged into deep snow. Efforts to find it were abandoned, but the area where it fell-more than a mile from the station-had been carefully marked...
...something like "flexibility," and not much more. But most were confident that Kennedy meant change. Observed Britain's conservative Daily Telegraph: "The American people have chosen adventure. Such a choice from such a people could well mark a turning point in history towards an era full of peril but also of great promise." Largely unspoken at official levels but widely discussed in editorials was a widespread feeling that in its declining days, the Eisenhower Administration had somehow lost its first confident touch or, at any rate, lost momentum. Even those who were confident that Kennedy would make few changes...
...defines philosophy of religion as "religion come to an understanding of itself." Writing in the preface to The Brahma Sutra, he says: "Unfortunately philosophy today is detached and specialized and is not aware of the peril to the human spirit. It does not seem to realize its responsibility to the time in which it is set. Even those who have a religious allegiance do not seem to feel a religious responsibility...
...limousines, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Margaret and Princess Alexandra, opulently gowned, bejeweled and tiara-topped, struck strikingly similar attitudes and expressions before dashing under the marquee in the escort of an umbrella-holding doorman. Several days later, Elizabeth had a far closer call from an overhead peril. Ordinarily, when she flies in her own realm, her air travel is known as a "purple flight," and all aircraft must avoid her route by ten miles. Flying back home from a visit to Denmark, Elizabeth had no such protection as she jetted along near the West German-Dutch border...