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...surgeons were truly impersonal (or, one might say, truly neutral) they would not heed the calls of distress from suffering humanity when they themselves were otherwise engaged in watching the ticker, or playing bridge, or writing thoughtful treatises on the insanity of their fellow men. They would not go to the considerable trouble and risk of using their knives to remove the malignant growths in the body of civilization. They would always find comfortable refuge behind the question, "Am I my brother's keeper...
Indeed it was. But Flight 007, in what must have been an interminable and terrifying descent for its travelers, seemed to die slowly. At 2:27 the crew tried, finally, to signal its distress. "Korean Air 007," began the voice. But only an unintelligible garble of sounds followed...
...crowning triumph, Porgy and Bess (1935), Ira contributed about half of the lyrics (the others were by DuBose Heyward). The brothers repeated their success in Hollywood, especially with Fred Astaire: Shall We Dance included They All Laughed and Let's Call the Whole Thing Off; for Damsel in Distress they wrote A Foggy Day (in London Town). But before Damsel was released, George was dead at 38 of a brain tumor...
Aviation and maritime officials were elated when the U.S. last March launched a weather satellite carrying a search-and-rescue, or SARSAT, system. The satellite, working in a rare cooperative venture with two Soviet SARSATS, automatically picked up distress signals from downed aircraft and foundering ships and relayed them back to earth. The SOSs gave searchers quick navigational fixes so that help could be sent promptly to the accident sites. Rescue agencies are now discovering that there can be too much of a good thing: false alarms are flooding the SARSAT system...
...single day, during their 18 passes over the U.S., the SARSATS pick up an average of 80 erroneous distress signals. On weekends, say officials at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois, which coordinates military and civilian rescue operations in the U.S., the number of bogus S O Ss rises to 100 or more. Deputy Assistant Air Force Secretary Lloyd Mosemann calls these counterfeit calls for help "a national disgrace" that "is strangling a very worthwhile program." Indeed, it is currently the only joint U.S.-Soviet space effort...