Word: pneumonia
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Died. Warren Robinson Austin, 85, onetime Republican Senator from Vermont and first U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; of pneumonia; in Burlington, Vt. In the Senate, Austin was an outspoken internationalist who championed lend-lease in 1941 with a thunderously applauded oration: "I say that a world enslaved to Hitler is worse than war, and worse than death." Appointed to the U.N. by Harry Truman, he was a rough-and-ready adversary of Soviet propaganda efforts. His most dramatic hour came in 1950 when he answered Moscow's attempt to charge the U.S. with aggression in Korea. Austin held...
...Pacific Coast. The Mexicans gave the stranded flyers shelter-which was all they had to give. The grateful Americans returned a few weeks later with food, clothing and toys. Dr. Dale Hoyt took his medical bag along. Hearing that there was a doctor in town, one woman with pneumonia walked four miles to see him. El Rosario had never had a fulltime doctor. Those who were sick traveled 55 miles to another town-or stayed sick...
First warning was the telltale eye-stinging vapor that old Londoners know so well. Out went the Red Alert to 200 hospitals, which went on a disaster standby in readiness for elderly patients, who are most susceptible to smog-induced pneumonia and bronchitis (or the "English disease," as it has long been known on the Continent). Ambulances searching for victims clanged their bells frantically, but could not extricate themselves from the vast rush-hour traffic jams. Not until the third day did London Transport authorities surrender to "very adverse weather conditions"; then, at last, they ordered their 5,000 buses...
...publishers with such expense-account items as 10? for wolfbane after covering a wolf hunt, and tickled his readers with such feats as hiring a taxicab during the "phony" war of 1939 to tootle past France's Maginot Line and inspect the Nazis' Siegfried Line; of pneumonia; in Chicago...
Taskmaster for the border war is Lieut. General Brij Mohan Kaul, 50, a Kashmiri Brahman distantly related to Prime Minister Nehru. When the Chinese Reds overwhelmed the Indian border posts last month, General Kaul was absent-ill with pneumonia, he had been evacuated, almost by force, to New Delhi. Now fully recovered and back at his headquarters in Tezpur, Kaul is determined to regain all the lost territory. The task is formidable. By an accident of geography, the Himalayan border is more easily reached from the Chinese-held Tibetan plateau than from the plains of India. Kaul's army...