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Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, which boasts that it is the world's busiest, was so overloaded that approaching autos were backed up for hundreds of yards and the terminals were besieged by distraught passengers who had missed flights because of the congestion. At New York's La Guardia Airport during the peak morning departure period, 40 jetliners idled their engines in a serpentine queue for as long as two hours before finally getting permission to take off. Isolated instances? Not at all. Across the U.S. last week, airports were clogged with unparalleled throngs...
...traffic light and dragged him from his car. When his fiancée resisted the cops, she was bruised in the scuffle. Late last week, U.S. Consul Clifford Gross was allowed to visit Crawford at Moscow's Lefortovo Prison. Crawford appeared to be in good health but was distraught. U.S. officials insist that the Soviet allegations are trumped up. "There is no indication that he was into anything that wasn't completely aboveboard," said a senior State Department official...
...Daniel! Daniel! Why are you arresting Daniel?). She acknowledges that she has been the unwitting instrument of Daniel's capture. She sings the distraught Mi sentivo un Giuda! (I was a Judas...
JUST THEN, a woman carrying a rolling pin walked into the room. Obviously distraught, she began pummelling the hapless comic with the kitchen implement, and screaming printable obscenities...
...concocted by Ivinskaya. In the case of the letter to Pravda, she "worked" with a Central Committee official: "Like a pair of professional counterfeiters. We took isolated phrases written or said by Boris and pieced them together in such a way that white was turned into black." Confused and distraught, Pasternak signed. Ivinskaya, who profoundly regrets her part in the letters, had panicked, believing that Pasternak might be jailed or murdered if he did not give in. During the last two years of his life, Pasternak was consumed with shame over his concession...