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...Senators, though perhaps it would have received less attention. Proxmire objected to the appointment of a professional oilman to the FPC. ("It would be like asking Mickey Mantle to umpire Yankee games.") The Senate indulgently let him have his say, and even helped him out in moments of distress. When Proxmire needed to go to the bathroom or to the Democratic cloak room for a quick lunch of cottage cheese, his colleagues held the floor for him, swapping jokes to pass the time. In turn, Bill Proxmire graciously yielded the floor from time to time, to permit snippets of debate...
...Thorpe's machine clicks cheerfully to the end, when it produces a satisfyingly idiotic conclusion. The only thing wrong with any of this excellent nonsense is an embarrassingly bad title song that, as is the current fashion, mewls while the credits are being shown. Thoughtful viewers will escape distress by arriving two minutes late...
...isolated farms were again carrying guns at all times. At mealtime, doors were unlocked only to let servants in and locked again after they had served the food. Barbed-wire barriers were strung across garden paths and floodlights left on throughout the night. Alarm sirens and clusters of distress rockets topped every farmhouse...
...Banana River, the shallow lagoon behind Cape Canaveral. The chance that any of this complicated and costly equipment would be needed had been calculated at something like 1 in 100. But among the burdens (and the glories) of the U.S. military tradition is the principle that a man in distress is worth the cost of any rescue...
Accomplices & Guilt. Legality was only part of the worrying. West Germany displays visible distress at the prospect of another raking up of Nazi atrocities. Sighed Konrad Adenauer: "There's nothing to do but wait and see-and try to live through it." West Berlin's Evangelical Bishop Otto Dibelius, who has himself been accused of anti-Semitism during the Hitler era-declared in a radio address: "The whole world will say, 'That is the way Germans are.' We will not be able to answer, It was only a handful of Germans who in their insanity forgot...