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Shortly after he had finished testifying before Congress, suffering from a bad heart, Harry White left Washington for a rest on his New Hampshire farm. He had just arrived there when he was stricken by another heart attack. Two days later, death came to Harry Dexter White...
...conflict in Palestine, land of refuge for Jews, had created a refugee problem of its own. Panic-stricken over Israeli military successes, 300,000 Arabs had fled from their Palestine homes. With no food and few possessions of their own, they now live in refugee camps among Arab neighbors. Arab governments want to send them back...
Fighting Trim. Fuller's 7,300 dealers buy their stock; their profit (average take: $70 a week) depends on their own initiative. Fuller men have delivered babies, rushed stricken customers to hospitals; one saved a child from strangulation by slapping its bottom until the coin she had swallowed was coughed up. Unlike the Fuller Brush man hero in the current Red Skelton film, no Fuller dealer has ever been suspected of murder, and despite legend, his erotic adventures...
...Demanding that Dr. Jan Papanek's charges be stricken from the record...
Orator Fosdick, no scientist himself, tried hard to be optimistic: ". . . This telescope can furnish our stricken society with some measure of healing perspective. This great new window to the stars will bring . . . into fresh focus the mystery of the universe, its order, its beauty, its power. ... Adrift in a cosmos whose shores he cannot even imagine, man spends his energies in fighting with his fellow man over issues which a single look through this telescope would show to be utterly inconsequential...