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...shipping wallowed in one of the worst storms of the century. At Sker Point, in Wales, hundreds watched helplessly as the 40 crewmen of a tanker, breaking up on the rocks 300 yards offshore, were swept to death by huge waves. A lifeboat, which set out to the stricken ship, was swamped and its crew of eight men lost...
...teen-age boys and girls who were driven by the shutdown from endless nightly phone communion to homework. In Kansas City, as in most struck cities, telegraph business zoomed a staggering 50 to 80%. In flooded Michigan, hurried conferences between company and union officials quickly restored emergency service to stricken areas. Radio "hams" took over part of the disaster-message burden in the devastated wake of the Texas-Oklahoma tornado (see Disaster). Denver's harassed company officials indignantly refused to deliver "Come home to lunch" calls from relatives to telephone pickets...
President Basil O'Connor of the Foundation, joining with President Conant in the announcement, stated that attempts would be made to determine objectively the nature and characteristics of different types of respiratory involvement and to develop new techniques for administering oxygen to stricken children...
Said Vermont's Senator George Aiken: "Food is the most potent weapon we can use today ... to oppose the forces of totalitarianism [in] the small, famine-stricken countries...
...Great Britain, and Bernard Baruch. They saw a U.S. foreign policy leading to prodigal spending, national bankruptcy and destruction of the very democratic system which the policy sought to protect. Kennedy doubted that such investments as Truman recommended would ever succeed in stopping Communism's spread. The poverty-stricken peoples of the world, he thought, were bound to try out Communism, if only because of its glittering promises...