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...Bennike, Chief Truce Supervisor, to New York to report. The U.N.'s Mixed Armistice Commission, chief enforcement agency of the truce, which has only the power to urge and deplore, deplored the Israeli act as "coldblooded murder." Britain, which stands behind the desert state of Jordan, wired its "distress" and "horror" in an angry message to Israel's government...
...first stop was a glass enclosed, five-foot model of the U.S.S. South Dakota, soon to be shipped to the Smithsonian Institute. On this particular model, however, the Ensign Jack is upside down. None of the officers noticed this miniature distress signal until the postman, an ex-enlisted man, mentioned...
...that rare thing-audience authority, the thing that makes everybody look at you when you are on stage." When things went wrong, Audrey would make her final exit crestfallen and out of breath from trying too hard. "I didn't get my laugh," she would say in distress to a fellow actor. "What did I do wrong?" At the end of the first week, when her name went up in lights on the Fulton marquee, Audrey darted across the street like a schoolgirl to have a look. Then, in sudden solemnity, she sighed: "Oh dear...
Depression gave him his chance. Rootes bought up, at distress prices, three famed but inefficient old companies-Humber, Hillman and Commer. He modernized their equipment and methods, had them paying dividends again within a year. Later the fast-growing Rootes Group took in others until it embraced 20 companies, including Sunbeam-Talbot...
...least, with plenty of space for its people, resources to house and feed them decently, and wonder drugs by the carload, the TB victim these days dies not so much from his disease as from neglect. Last week health and Government officials in Alabama were in distress as they faced up to the fact that, although their state runs an energetic TB detection campaign, it lags sadly in preventing the disease and caring for patients...