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Each year, 50,000 U.S. infants die soon after birth-at least 25,000 of them from respiratory distress syndrome (RDS). Also called hyaline membrane disease, RDS is caused by the inability of an infant's lungs to extract oxygen from the air and pass carbon dioxide out of the body. Even when such babies (most of them premature) survive, they may suffer permanent brain damage...
Audrey Currier established the philanthropic Taconic Society which aims to "alleviate human distress and create opportunities for the disadvantaged." John Simon, president of the foundation, spoke about its activities at the ceremony...
...across as calm and concerned, if somewhat theatrical. Everyone, he pointed out, is for law-and-order; the Democrats have voted for Nixon's anticrime legislation. What about national unity, he asked. What about racial tension, the environment, economic problems? "There are those who seek to turn our common distress to partisan advantages, not by offering better solutions but with empty threat and malicious slander...
MICHIGAN. Widespread unemployment, in large measure due to the strike against General Motors, has idled 180,000 workers in Michigan. The economic distress is an inhibiting factor in Governor William Milliken's campaign. He was the favorite to win in November until his indecisiveness and the strike combined to boost his opponent, Sander Levin, a former Democratic state chairman. Still, Milliken is a slight favorite-unless popular Democratic Senator Phil Hart has coattails long enough to sweep up Levin...
THERE ARE enough Americans living in exile nowadays that one more won't make much difference, I suppose. But S. J. Perelman's recently announced move to England should be a real cause for distress, if only for what it says about America's sense of humor. It's not just the violence, he says, it's the way the violence fills up the newspapers and doesn't leave any room for his stock in trade: the bizarre, the eccentric, and the unusual. England, he thinks, will be better. I hope he's right. I doubt...