Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unidentified youths set off a fire alarm at 2:30 a.m. yesterday in Radcliffe's Eliot Hall, but fled before police and firemen arrived. The only witness Suzanne R. Hiatt '58, reported that the pair drove off in a blue station wagon...
...Harris H. Coggleshall, head resident, telephoned the police about 9 p.m., when she heard the burglar alarm on the fire escape. Before the police arrived, a neighbor, the Rev. C. Howard Wallace, pursued the man for about three blocks, but could not overtake...
...Line. To carry out both functions without delay, NORAD must rely on the almost instantaneous coordination of all its parts, beginning with the outlying alarm bells of the newly completed, $600 million Arctic portion of the DEW line. Stretching for 3,000 miles along the northern rim of the continent, this line includes more than 50 stations whose surveillance radars interlock like an electric warning fan twelve miles high, from Alaska's Cape Lisburne to Canada's Baffin Island...
Think of the Whole. In all the viewing-with-alarm, there were words of caution. Money alone, said President Henry Heald of the Ford Foundation, will solve nothing, nor can the Federal Government "decree the study of science." In Washington, the National Student Association warned that if the nation fails to improve not only the scientific but all aspects of education, the U.S. educational system might be "reduced to a satellite of the Russian system, spinning in an orbit dictated by Russian scientists...
Timesaver. In Milan, Italy, James Lorenzi, 68. swiped a clock from a jewelry store, had almost made his getaway when the alarm went...