Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hello, late workers," reads the cheery newspaper ad. "Are you usually late for work, appointments and dates? Well, let Gimpex take care of this with a Russian alarm wristwatch." And if timing is no problem, how about Chinese or Czechoslovakian sewing machines, glassware, pots and pans, brushes, cut-rate food items? In British Guiana's capital of Georgetown, Gimpex, short for Guiana Import-Export Corp., offers them all. The company is the colony's biggest importer of Communist goods, and Marxist Premier Cheddi lagan's lifeline to the Red world...
Goat Glands for Houston. One of the chief beneficiaries of NASA largesse is California, and last week its Congressmen were scurrying around Washington in anguished alarm. "We were already in trouble," said one, "but this will make it harder for us to get funds." Houston, where NASA's $200 million Manned Spacecraft Center worked a goat-gland miracle on local real estate values, is equally threatened...
...surprisingly, the unscrupulous undertaker views such clerical counsel with considerable alarm. Miss Mitford quotes some frank advice on the subject from the pages of Mortuary Management: "We tell the family to go ahead and look over the caskets in the display room, and that the minister, if he has come with them, will join them later. We tell the minister that we have something we would like to talk to him about privately, and we've found that if we have some questions to ask him, he seems to be flattered that his advice is being sought...
Even the police are helpful: the sheriff will often send a deputy to wake a hunter at 4 a.m. if he forgets his alarm clock. The only sour face belongs to the game warden and to the occasional cattleman whose cow comes down with colic from eating shell casings. Bird fanciers, who in some states have gotten doves classified as "songbirds" and made them illegal to hunt, fail to darken the Imperial Valley dawn. Game managers have proved that the birds' talent for dodging, plus enthusiastic mating habits, keep the dove population constant, and there is no reason...
Packed in suitcases and hidden in the false bottoms of automobiles, lire are being smuggled out of Italy at the rate of more than $200 million a month. In any other nation, such a capital flight might lead to alarm or panic. In Italy it is recognized as only another ingenious ploy to cheat the tax collector. No one really worries, because the fleeing lira usually returns to Italy wearing a disguise...