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...week when U.S. troops were ordered to stand or die in the mountains of Korea (see WAR IN ASIA), and when other trouble spots in the world were alive with peril, Washington was planning as if the most important problem was how to avoid disturbing things at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Sense of Urgency | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

When the last discussion of coeducation reduced to the absurdity of beanies and the Marxian significance of women's not being admitted to Lamont, I feared the mater was dead. But now that Thomas J. Wilson has issued another hallenge to the Female Peril, there is nothing to do but rise heroically to his assistance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For an All-Male Cambridge | 6/20/1950 | See Source »

...example is the movement underway to promote joint Harvard-Radcliffe membership in Harvard undergraduate organizations. Another case, much more vicious and dangerous, is the constantly increasing number of actually co-educational courses. Next year only five courses will remain all-male. This step presents Harvard with her greatest peril in her' 314 years of existence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 6/9/1950 | See Source »

...Chiang said last week that he would be willing to see General MacArthur assume responsibility for the integrity of Formosa. If the U.S. through MacArthur did assume responsibility, such questions as Chiang's personality would recede into proper perspective. Formosa could then be weighed in terms of future peril to the free world rather than in terms of past U.S. and Chinese mistakes. So weighed, Formosa could and would be defended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Invasion Season | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...Peril. Many Filipinos felt sure that Father Hogan's action was not an individual protest; they thought that the P.A.L. dispute might grow into a major rift between the church and the Philippine government. Manila remembered an eloquent address last fall to Catholic lay leaders in which Apostolic Delegate Vagnozzi had exhorted "the wealthy people [and] businessmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Priest on the Picket Line | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

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