Word: distressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still-not entirely to his distress-Freshman Percy has attracted a lot of expensive attention, the kind that can quickly devour the $279,306 annual office budget that he is allowed by the Government. An average of 1,500 letters a day cascade into Percy's office; his secretaries answer 200 telephone calls daily-a volume probably matched only by that of New York's Senator Robert Kennedy. He has traveled 150,000 miles to speak in more than 60 cities. Having exhausted his regular budget, Percy has poured his $30,000 senatorial salary and about...
Cutting Capers. Then a fairy gold-mother appears, a working madam (Beatrice Straight) willing to aid a matron in distress with a part-time afternoon job as a $100-an-hour call girl. Barbara is appalled-but not for long. When a packet of almost $5,000 arrives addressed to Nelson, it is clear to the audience, if not to him, that his wife is making good in the oldest business...
...Oiens could have been rescued in a matter of hours had their plane been equipped with a crash-locator beacon ($100-$300), which shines a light visible up to ten miles and sends a radio distress signal 60 miles. Unknown to them, their two-month drama was lived out only eight miles from busy U.S. Route...
...Fire in the spacecraft!" is a distress call the National Aeronautics and Space Administration hopes never to hear again. In the aftermath of last January's Apollo fire, NASA is spending more than $100 million to that end. By the time Astronauts Wally Schirra, Bonn Eisele and Walter Cunningham lift off a launch pad for the first manned Apollo flight next year, their spacecraft should be virtually fireproof...
Hard Luck. Massie, a Rhodes scholar and freelance journalist, will probably distress academic historians by his abstention from heavy ideological expositions-and by his brisk prose. His plain thesis is that the murder of Nicholas and Alexandra put the seal of irrevocability on the Bolsheviks' successful putsch against the infant Kerensky government. Both events are traced more to Nicholas' hard luck than to any concatenation of inevitable historical forces-a Marxist theory that 50 years of propaganda have almost conned the West into accepting...