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There may be nothing Sam Skinner won't do for Bush. During a 1989 G.O.P. fund-raising dinner, a Secret Service agent, careful not to alarm the crowd, inched toward the head table on all fours. He tapped Skinner on the foot and said, "Follow me, sir." Without ado, the Secretary of Transportation got down on his hands and knees and crawled between tables, chairs and legs to the rear of the ballroom, then stepped into a waiting limousine and motored to the White House Situation Room, where he planned the California earthquake cleanup...
Roosevelt tried to call Admiral Stark, but he was at a revival of Sigmund Romberg's Student Prince; the President didn't want him paged at the theater lest that cause "undue alarm." When Roosevelt did finally reach him shortly before midnight, the Navy chief said, according to his later recollection, that the message was not "something that required action." After all, Stark testified, warnings had already gone out that Japan was "likely to attack at any time in any direction...
...returned to their ship than they were ordered out again. But few were in shape to go -- five dive bombers and four torpedo planes -- and their crews were so exhausted that the commander ordered a break before the next takeoffs. The rice balls were just being served when the alarm sounded: "Enemy dive bombers directly overhead." Swooping down, planes from the Enterprise and the dying Yorktown started the fires that would destroy the Hiryu...
...just retiring operatic heroines and "sensitive" poets. It was an indiscriminate killer, taking over 100,000 lives each year in the U.S. until the middle of this century, when antibiotics brought it under control. So when TB re-emerged in AIDS patients six years ago, it was greeted with alarm. Still, most doctors believed it posed little risk to the general population, since modern antibiotics could contain the infection before it flared into full-fledged disease...
When Eduard Shevardnadze abruptly resigned as Soviet Foreign Minister last December, warning of a coming dictatorship, he provoked widespread shock and alarm. His reappointment last week brought an international sigh of relief...