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...Explosive decompression" is what happens to passengers and crew members of a pressurized airliner when a window blows out at high altitude. Announcing that it had made some experiments on the subject, the Civil Aeronautics Administration said soothingly last week that such disasters are no great peril just now, because airliners do not fly high enough. But cruising altitudes are increasing. In an effort to make airplane manufacturers fully conscious of future dangers, the CAA made a movie which chilled the blood of hard-boiled air designers...
...peril of the U.S. position was that in the U.N. it could never act alone. It had to deal with its friends, as well as its enemies. The question for the moment was whether MacArthur could take the rest of North Korea before the conciliators gave it away-and threw away the prestige which the U.N. had recently won in Asia...
...blew 14-foot-long copper trumpets. Below, in the building's ornate Assembly Hall, a bright-eyed, 16-year-old boy sat on a high throne, about which clustered Tibet's most powerful lamas, abbots and monks. They had come in the country's hour of peril, with Chinese Communist invaders lodged deep in the Himalayan upland, to witness the coronation of the 14th Dalai Lama, the reincarnated Buddha of Mercy. Hours of prayer and ritual reached a climax when the adolescent god-king accepted the great jade seal of supreme Tibetan authority on which is engraved...
While the constitution writers had been haggling, the News, the secret socities, and the fraternities woke up to what they considered a grisly peril. The News blasted the proposal in print while the secret society and fraternity men carried on an effective word-of-mouth anti-`council campaign. When the students voted in May, they gave the constitution a 2,199 to 1,851 majority, 501 short of the two-thirds necessary for passage...
...defend. It did nothing to stop the rumors. Dean Acheson owed his job to just one man, Harry Truman, who has said he considers him one of the "great Secretaries of State." The President was apt to stick by him the more he was attacked. Acheson's peril, however, lay not so much with critics of his foreign policy, as with its friends, who feared that his unpopularity jeopardized the policy. It was their outspoken worrying that lent credence to reports that within a month or two Acheson would quit. Most scuttlebutt simply had him returning to private...