Word: risking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extension of birth control runs the risk of dividing public opinion. The Draper report, however, provides a method by which the United Stats can work towards birth control without arousing domestic opposition. Assistance for population limitation programs, requested by other nations, could be provided by this country or by a suitable international agency. So long as men remain men, population will pose a problem-but one that can be controlled...
Once more Hammarskjold had taken the initiative to get the U.N. "presence" felt without running the risk of a Security Council veto or running afoul of the General Assembly's volatile political alignments. Hammarskjold himself likes to talk of the necessary evolution of his office, and of his competence to take actions "with the consent or at the invitation of governments concerned, but without formal decisions of other organs of the U.N." His authority he finds in Article 99 of the Charter, which empowers the Secretary-General to act in any situation that "may threaten the maintenance of international...
...Phillip's hospital sieges in Galveston, Mrs. Steven Culpepper. an Abilene housewife with one son of her own, heard of his plight and undertook to care for him. Her aim: major surgery, for permanent correction of Phillip's physical defects. For almost two years, no hospital would risk it because of court fights over Phillip's custody. But armed at last with full adoption papers affirmed by the state Supreme Court, Mrs. Culpepper took her adopted boy to Texas Children's Hospital in Houston. There, during the summer, surgeons removed the nonfunctioning "left" kidney from Phillip...
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.) *When an anonymous letter fingers a top-rank scientist as a Communist and delays his security clearance, he launches an investigation of his own, discovers some shocking facts. Security Risk stars Larry Gates...
Burney put the finger on cigarette smoking as carrying the greatest risk. And he said filter tips developed so far do not do a good enough job of straining out tars...