Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was small cause for alarm when United Air Lines Pilot John Grosso reported, ten minutes out of Denver, that his Los Angeles-bound DC-8, with 122 persons aboard, had lost most of the pressure in its hydraulic system. The landing gear would still drop into place and lock. Once on the runway, Grosso might not be able to maneuver the steerable nose wheel, but reverse engine thrust would slow his plane down, and a reserve supply of hydraulic fluid would permit some operation of the main landing-gear brakes. As a last resort, the pilot could...
...Russian display was a cause for concern although not necessarily for alarm. It was yet another spur to Washington's current reappraisal of U.S. military planning (see THE NATION) to determine whether the U.S. had the hard ware necessary for its defense. But the best answer to Russia's new planes may not be a better plane, but a new rocket or more Polaris submarines...
Apparently, Iraq's General Abdul Karim Kassem had thought he was only offering an Arab pleasantry when he announced his intent to "liberate" oil-rich Kuwait. He was amazed when alarm bells went off all over the Middle East. At Sheik Abdullah as Salim as Sabah's cry for help, Britain in a matter of hours poured 3,000 crack troops, with their tanks and troop carriers, into Kuwait from bases in Kenya, Aden and Bahrein. A British aircraft carrier and a fleet of warships appeared offshore; another flotilla steamed toward the area from the Mediterranean. After...
Other nations-notably the U.S., Russia, France, Britain, Italy, Japan, Canada and Australia-have fired weather rockets. But Shavit was the first fired by any Middle Eastern country, and a tremor of alarm ran through Israel's Arab neighbors (the Arabs suffered a similar tremor seven months ago when Israel admitted it was constructing a 24,000-kw. nuclear reactor). Presumably, any nation that can send a rocket winging 50 miles up for wind data can readjust its flight for military purposes. Jordan's Prime Minister Bahjat Talhouni said his government was "extremely concerned...
Tricky Business. Archaeologists raised the alarm when they realized the temple's peril, and several schemes were suggested to keep the water away from Ramses' memorial. One faction wanted to cover the temple with a watertight dome, another to protect it with a curving cofferdam. Both dome and cofferdam could be built, but they would be difficult to maintain and would dwarf the temple. The most attractive scheme, conceived by Italian Archaeologist Piero Gazzola, was to cut the whole temple free of the surrounding rock and lift it with 308 hydraulic jacks to a new place above...