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...enthusiasm of audiences and critics (said the Times of India: "An experience of a lifetime") made sickness and occasional discomfort seem unimportant. Again and again listeners were astonished that such expertly played music could come from a "provincial" U.S. city. At the Karachi concert, Pakistan President Iskander Mirza was so moved that he asked the orchestra to repeat the Pakistani national anthem. Said a State Department official: "They have done more to impress people with the U.S. than anything that has come out of the U.S. since...
...Hamm Brewing Co. alternating with LIFE) makes its pitch mainly to viewers who want to rubberneck in celebrities' homes. It deliberately casts Murrow, sitting in a Manhattan studio, as a discreet electronic guest whose job is to make polite chitchat, not ask probing questions. Murrow's own discomfort is sometimes visible, but he sold Person to Person as a package to CBS this year in a capital-gains deal, thus is undoubtedly committed to go on with it. The show does have what one frequent viewer calls an "idiot fascination," and it is a prime moneymaker...
Summed up Gynecologist William C.W. Nixon: "Of all gynecological operations, that of therapeutic abortion is the one that causes me most discomfort. Not only is there the destruction of the fetus-one can feel the shudder of the [operating room] staff-but also the constant vision of the coroner's court-deaths do occur...
...years when the blues were biting, you couldn't find a live cat in town. There are even lures out now with built-in fish calls. Or you can remove the dorsal fin from a live pigfish, drop him in the water, and his little squeals of discomfort will often attract sea trout...
...question mark, the middle-aged momentarily see the ghost of the '30s like an old roll-your-own cigarette machine back in the closet. But for the active executive, as for the active consumer, the question usually brings only a healthy caution or a moment's discomfort. "I don't find anybody really scared," says one steelman, "but there is plenty of studied concern...