Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After their first alarm subsided, fanny-dippers and local authorities have discovered that East Coast surfers are mostly clean-cut collegians whose hair is as short as their surfing history. In Delray Beach, Fla., the Seacrest Hotel bitterly opposed an ordinance that gave 200 ft. of adjoining beach over to surfers, claiming that they would drive away wealthy regulars. Now the hotel is happy it lost the fight. Its patrons crowd the outdoor terraces on hot afternoons to watch the surfers. Said Police Chief James Grantham: "There hasn't been a single problem. If I were younger...
...capsule's third day in space, nearing the end of the 48th revolution around earth, its IBM computer went on the blink. Even though the computer was necessary to help the pilot guide the capsule back to earth with pinpoint accuracy, the failure caused no great alarm. At the Houston Control Center, Mission Director Christopher Kraft blamed "glitch"-a computer-age gremlin that causes an abrupt change in power, fouling up delicate circuits. Kraft turned to Astronaut John Young, who used a similar computer on the earlier Gemini 3 flight, asked if a swift kick might revive it. Said...
Moore was dead. But Rogers immediately sent out a radio alarm, giving a description of the black truck, detailed down to the Confederate-flag decal on the front bumper. Less than an hour later, police at a roadblock in Tylertown, Miss., just across the state line, stopped a truck fitting Rogers' description. Arrested was Ernest Ray McElveen, 41, a mill worker and sometime insurance man from Bogalusa, who happened to have two pistols with...
Among the 1,000 or so conservationists, urban renewers, landscape design ers, architects, doers of good and viewers with alarm who met in Washington last week for the White House Conference on Natural Beauty (see THE NATION) was Mrs. Mary Lasker, 65, whose qualifications as beautifier are beyond dispute. Among other things, Mary Las ker is a devoted philanthropist and sup porter of Democratic Party causes, and a warm friend of President Johnson's at whose side she sat last month at a' Waldorf dinner for party contributors. New Yorkers know her best as the city...
...weeks ago brought immediate markups in copper and brass products; last week aluminum producers lifted prices on a broad range of products. Treasury Secretary Henry H. Fowler believes that if this trend accelerates "we may have some problems," but that so far it is "not a cause for alarm...