Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crime. Actor Steve McQueen plans to move with his wife and two children to Switzerland next year. Says his wife Neile, who was a friend of the murdered Sharon Tate: "I sleep with a gun under my pillow because I don't trust anybody. We have an electric alarm at the gate and house alarm system, and it's still not enough. This is no way to live...
...MOST critical piece of technology for any police department, including the Harvard police, is communications. In the past, there used to be a red blinking-light alarm system. A patrolman, if he saw the red light blinking at the corner of a building, would immediately telephone headquarters. The men would also phone in routinely every half hour. But about five years ago, a one-way radio system was introduced whereby the men could receive messages from headquarters...
During the daytime, the Harvard police will be relying increasingly upon alarm systems being established in all the Harvard buildings. The alarms are buttons which, when pushed, will light up the "big board" at headquarters. More than 25 such alarms have already been installed. There are, for example, three in University Hall and one in Massachusetts Hall...
According to Aeroflot Captain Oganes Babayan, the pair had burst into the cockpit and when the pilots tried to radio an alarm to the ground, opened fire. One passenger said the stewardess was killed as she tried to keep the hijackers out of the cockpit. The hijackers carried five firearms and three hand grenades-an extraordinary arsenal in any case but particularly for Soviet citizens, who are prohibited from owning firearms without special permission.* They also had about $5,000 in Soviet and U.S. currency...
Slater, chairman of the sociology department at Brandeis, views with increasing alarm the irrationally strong reactions we experience toward dissident "blacks, hippies, and student radicals." Contrasting "our intense fear of small and comparatively unarmed minorities" with the cheerful, schizoid blandness with which we greet the possibility of a nuclear holocaust or an ecological Armaggedon (or perhaps last night's neighborhood stabbing and the girl's annoying screams), he is very troubled about what sick things must be happening within ourselves...