Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alarm in Analysis. On encounter day-July 14-JPL technicians arrived at their control center at dawn. They were filled with nagging doubts. The TV and tape-recording equipment had not been tested since February, and if something did go wrong, there would be no time to correct it because it would take 24 minutes for radio signals traveling at the speed of light to make the round trip between Mariner and the control station. Just to be on the safe side, JPL control sent a series of four last-minute direct commands to back up the programmed instruction...
...mind is an alarm clock that silently nudges him about 4 in the morning whenever there is air action in Viet Nam. In the darkness, he turns and lifts the phone to call the Situation Room deep in the basement of the White House and then, hopefully, goes back to sleep. Once an admirer wrote a passage about the great lady of Greek letters Edith Hamilton, and it applies so accurately to Lyndon Johnson it is worth repeating now: "She feels like a personal experience the giant agony of the world; there are not many in this aristocracy of humanity...
...climbing. At the same moment, Flight Engineer Fitch Robertson called out: "We have lost power on No. 4," meaning the right outboard engine of the plane's four fan jets. As Kimes reached for his controls, the huge jet yawed wildly to the right. A fire-alarm bell sounded, and a red warning light flashed on the instrument panel, indicating that No. 4 engine was on fire...
Across the U.S., virtually every city and suburb can point with pride-and sometimes alarm-at those who forced Progress to step around them rather than let it walk over them. For most holdouts, there may be satisfaction in the fact that they automatically produce a monument to their own stubbornness. The symmetry of Manhattan's towering RCA Building is notched by a drab four-story building housing Hurley's Bar, whose owner turned down offers of $1,000,000. San Francisco's 27-story Shell Building is conspicuously shaped to surround a narrow, eleven-story building...
Docile Cronies. Algerians at first were stunned by the suddenness of the coup. Then, as protesting slogans started sprouting in cities throughout the nation, the crowds mounted increasingly violent demonstrations. So as not to alarm foreign newsmen and Afro-Asian delegations, Boumedienne handled the rioters gently in the capital, though elsewhere his troops reportedly killed 30 or more. The crowds, led by Moscow-oriented Communist students, included Ben Bella supporters, emancipated women who fear that the deeply religious Boumedienne will bring back the traditional Moslem veil, as well as some industrial workers; on one occasion 100 uniformed police joined...