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...needed by the Communists. I will suggest that as an alternative, they circulate the same petitions demanding that the surplus foods be circulated to South Viet Nam, where more than 350,000 homeless and hungry refugees, driven from their homes by the well fed Reds, are in dire need of substinence. Herbert A. Philbrick New York Herald Tribune
...private first class), Curtice rapidly rose to AC assistant general manager, vice president, and, at 36, president. Then, in 1933, came an opportunity born of disaster. General Motors' Buick, for years a notable success as the safe, sound and respectable "doctor's car," was in dire trouble. It had gone up in price, fallen behind in styling, grown fat and heavy (one model was inelegantly nicknamed the "pregnant Buick," the "bedpan Buick" and the "bathtub Buick"). When Depression struck, it hit Buick square in its middle-age spread, and Buick's share of the auto market dropped...
...overall record of American prisoners in Korea showed that resistance to Red demands was neither futile nor lethal; defiant captives usually fared as well as abject collaborators. Last week the court of eleven officers evidently decided that-in the absence of dire and direct physical duress-dog meat, sulfa pills or any other material benefits were not reason enough for Fleming's conduct. The verdict: guilty of collaboration. The sentence: dishonorable dismissal, with forfeiture of all pay and allowances...
...weeks ago by the national commander of the American Legion, illustrate more clearly than any abstract editorial generalizations the present status of academic freedom in this country. Addressing two Legion posts gathered in New York's Madison Square Park for a Memorial Day service, Mr. Ray Murphy voiced the dire prediction that if this nation were ever overcome by Russia, "a lot of American citizens, most of them college graduates, would be ready, able, and willing to staff the new satellite of the Soviet...
...court, Attorney James D. C. Murray* brought out her story. She had a careless mother and no father. When Lena began going out with boys, her mother, as a dire warning, told her she was illegitimate. Lena sought out the man adjudged her father in a paternity suit years before, but he repudiated her and sent her away. Lena began carrying a knife, then the hatchet, for protection on her way home from work. She said that the old tailor, whom everyone called Pop, tried to fondle her. As she hit him, she kept calling...