Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stolen Goods, Gems Lifted from the Masters; The Outrageous Dr. Teleny's Incredible Plugged-in Orchestra (Zack Laurence conducting; RCA quadradisc, $5.98). The cover of this album shows a James Bond type suspended by rope above an alarm-rigged floor making a heist of some bejeweled busts of the great composers. The first track is called The People, Yes, and turns out to be Chopin's Revolutionary Etude done up in the sex and violence of an 007 film's sound track. Ludwig's Gig is a lush snippet from Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony; Superjoy...
Blind Spots. Sauer's was not the only alarm sounded at the meeting. United Airlines reported that in three years of monitoring 175 pilots for symptoms of hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar, they discovered that 20% showed some tendency toward the condition. Two of these pilots had such attendant symptoms as visual impairment, dizziness and sweating. Hypoglycemia, however, is easily controlled. Indeed, none of the pilots with hypoglycemic tendencies had to be grounded as a result of their condition; their blood sugar counts were stabilized with special diets...
Tito's alarm at the party's inability to keep the peace among Yugoslavia's diverse nationalities has been compounded by growing economic disruption, much of it of his own making. The "self-management" system he introduced in 1950, combining a market economy and other features of free enterprise with state ownership of industry, is foundering because of inefficiency and mismanagement. Massive imports of Western technology and consumer goods have not been matched by American or European investment. As a result, Yugoslavia is becoming more dependent on Soviet capital. Eight hundred thousand Yugoslavs have sought jobs...
...wife and business partner, Doris, 69; by self-inflicted carbon monoxide poisoning; in South Pasadena, Calif. Dreyfuss was a young stage designer at the start of the Depression when he turned his talents to industry. During the next four decades he fashioned such everyday items as Big Ben alarm clocks, Hoover vacuum cleaners, Royal typewriters and the Trimline telephone...
...fictional Massachusetts town. There the young of the town begin roosting in a large untidy flock. They do very little; smoke some pot, drink a little beer, look down silently and passively on the activity of Main Street. The passivity, the looking-down, the doing-very-little first alarm and then enrage the citizens of Tarbox. Editorials are written, letters sent to the editor. Undirected manias find a focus. The town's self-respect is felt to be eroding. "People are bringing the shutters down from their attics and putting them back on their windows," Updike writes. His story...