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...Russians. At an old coal mine, which had been confiscated from the British (the fact was not mentioned), a foreman had been tried a few days before by a people's court convened on the spot, and summarily shot for inefficiency and sabotage. This, at least, seemed to distress some of the visitors...
...colder climate than Arizona. Frau Ritter lived for a year on the north coast of Spitsbergen in a hut ten feet square, with her husband and a young Norwegian hunter, in temperatures that sank to 40° below zero. To the north lay Anxiety Bay, to the south Distress Hook, to the east Misery Bay and to the west the Bay of Grief. Not a tree or shrub rose from the sea of stones that covered the desolate land, and the nearest settlement was 156 miles away. Frau Ritter lived on seal and bear meat, survived raging blizzards, solitude...
Melting Himalayan snow and driving monsoon rains began the damage. The swollen Brahmaputra and Ganges Rivers spilled over one-third of East Pakistan, washing nearly 10 million people from their homes and destroying so many crops that famine seemed unavoidable and epidemics imminent. As Pakistan sent up distress signals last week, the U.S. responded as rapidly as it would to a cry for help from flooded Iowa. Within a few hours after President Eisenhower ordered U.S. Government agencies into action...
Cathay Pacific officials in Hong Kong got the distress message and phoned Communist Canton, asking permission to send rescue planes. Replied Canton: "You may send a civilian plane. Don't send a military plane or we will shoot it down...
...Distress & Surprise. The Republican strategy conceived by Millikin was intended simply to head off the George amendment with a more palatable substitute. The George amendment would drain $2.4 billion from the Treasury; the Millikin amendment would cut Government revenue only $960 million. Much to the distress of the Republicans, the Democrats (joined by Maverick Republican Bill Langer) voted down Millikin's amendment 49-46. Then, much to their own surprise, the Republicans, joined by Virginia's Harry Byrd and Willis Robertson, Colorado's Edwin Johnson and Florida's Spessard Holland, defeated the George amendment...