Word: alarms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prevent North Vietnamese infiltration. It consists of an outer line of 8-ft.-high barbed wire and an inner, 5-ft.-high line 10 yds. away. The space between is laced with mines. At irregular intervals along the fence are strung electronic sensing devices, which raise an alarm in adjacent guard posts when an infiltrator tries to cross. The guards in turn alert nearby army units, equipped to react quickly with helicopters and powerful searchlights...
...Clocks designed by Peter Max. See six different styles plus three electric alarm clocks...
Harvard also prides herself on the variety of opportunity and experience which she offers to her student body, giving to each individual the maximum freedom in conducting his personal affairs, even to extremes which have for some been the cause of alarm. Yet, serious consideration is now being given to denying individual students the right to pursue, on an entirely voluntary basis, a course of military training sanctioned and encouraged by the government of the United States and provided with practically no cost to either the students or the university. Such a course of action, if taken, singles...
...course, some people have shown alarm, thinking that we are going too far, while others consider that what has been done is too timid." For the time being, the Premier seemed determined to keep to himself his own view of which course, between those extremes, Portugal should now take...
...Wednesday morning. I found the bathroom, which had been cleared out for us. There was a huge female sex sign on the door with the words "Up Against the Wall Mother Yale" scrawled beneath it. I said goodnight to my student host (who left with his radio and alarm clock) and fell, exhausted, into...