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...quiet session of the Knesset. Only half the members were present, and four chairs at the Cabinet ministers' table stood empty. An Israeli M.P. was recalling the peril that faced his nation exactly a year before, when its troops stood ready to launch their attack on the Sinai Peninsula. A small object flew through the air from the direction of the visitors' gallery. Like the well-trained old soldier that he is, Prime Minister Ben-Gurion ducked to the floor as the missile hurtled past his snowy, hair, but nobody else moved. A second later, the tossed hand...
Among other peril-frought trends in the U.S., Italy's sleek, slick Couturiere Simonetta observed a "dangerous" tendency among U.S. women to ignore fashion trends and wear what they look best in. Here on her first U.S. visit since 1955, Simonetta crossly jangled her charm bracelet at a New York Timeslady and cried: "All over the country I have seen what I have never seen before . . . Where is the three-quarter sleeve? Where is the lithe waistline, the close-fitting hipline? The shorter hemline? These are not being worn, although we presented them in the last collections!" But, after...
...United States is in "deadly peril" of being forced under by "despotic dictatorship, as so many decadent democracies have been in the past," Senator Joseph S. Clark, Jr. '23 told the Harvard Young Democrats in Emerson Hall last night...
...this reason Jacobsson warned: "When the tide turns, there must be sufficient flexibility for money rates to be eased." Moreover, underdeveloped countries that rely on inflation in more advanced countries, particularly the U.S., to increase the price of their raw materials, are now doing so at their own peril. "If the countries do not stop their inflationary movements, they will probably not be able to rely on the U.S. to save them. The U.S. has arrested inflation...
...threatened Asian flu epidemic in this country, there would probably be fewer gray hairs and ulcers in the Civil Defense Administration. Yet Americans are preparing for a disease, whose fatal effects will be negligible, with more Boy-Scout-brand energy than they have ever devoted to the nuclear peril...