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...Inchon, 964 Korean orphans and other waifs of war, aged six months to eleven years, were waiting to be taken to an island off the South Korean coast. Some of the older ones were too weak from starvation to walk, or too sick (e.g., with scabies, whooping cough, tuberculosis). They were to have been settled in a children's refuge at Seoul, but U.N. reverses caused that plan to be abandoned...
Alben Barkley, with a stuffy nose and a racking cough, presided over the Senate in the old Supreme Court chamber* where there is barely room to swing a cat. Occasionally, he tapped for order with the tiny blob of ivory that serves as his gavel...
...Huey's 31-year-old son, who was speeding through the state, heralded by sound trucks, stumping for re-election to the U.S. Senate. The same tousled black hair stuck to his forehead, the doughy chin trembled as he made his ten speeches a day and crunched cough drops in between...
Rare Air. In Choisy-le-Roi, France, Maurice Fonctionnaz, charged with stealing a horse, explained to the court that he had only done it to help his whooping cough and asthma: "On a horse I'm a little higher than usual, and that lets me breathe...
...discovered was that the cost to Chrysler for such pensions would be less per man per hour than the cost to Ford, because Ford workers are generally older and have had more years of service. Even though he had got his trust fund, Reuther was determined to make Chrysler cough up 10? an hour, as Ford had. Reuther had his eye on the next company on the negotiation line -giant General Motors. He wanted to be able to go to G.M. with a record of having won maximum demands...