Word: alarms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...miracle to occur: in early May, as on his feast day in September, the hardened blood of San Gennaro is said to liquefy inside the sealed glass vial in which it has been preserved since the saint's 4th century martyrdom. This May, however, to the dismay and alarm of the worshipers, the blood of Naples' patron saint refused to move on schedule. According to tradition, this failure occurs only when disaster is imminent. That disaster might have been the earthquake that struck Northern Italy last week (see box following page). But Naples' Corrado Cardinal Ursi, calling...
...they had quit serving lunch at the Union. It looked like it was going to rain, and the Sox would probably lose again. I took my shoes off, loosened my belt, turned over in bed and set my alarm for 6. Maybe I could make it to supper...
...West 57th Street Manhattan apartment-next to the lacquered box she brought back from Jackie Kennedy's 1962 trip to India, the hand-carved backscratcher from Gerald Ford's visit to China last December, and all the other gewgaws gathered in her hectic travels-there sit two alarm clocks. For years Walters, the co-host queen bee of NBC's early morning Today show and the most influential woman on television, has been indentured to those tyrannical timepieces. They are set permanently to go off at 5 a.m. Says she: "I always told people that...
Some skeptics reject the NSF suggestion that American science is on the skids. "The U.S. is still the most productive nation in the world," said Nobel-prize winning Economist Paul A. Samuelson at last week's symposium. A few suspect that the alarm over U.S. scientific performance may be a ploy to win more money for research. Daniel S. Greenberg, editor and publisher of a Washington-based newsletter called Science and Government Report, wrote during a similar scare two years ago that "the elders of science are possessed by visions of doom" that can only be exorcised by more...
Rick Stafford peers through the window glass at 17 Quincy Street and raises his eyebrows in alarm. "Oh boy! We've got a function going on here," he says, pressing the buzzer firmly. No one responds so he knocks on the door, waits and buzzes again. Finally the door opens and he strides in and over to a small room where fancily dressed people are sipping cocktails. He spots Helen Gilbert (chairman of the Radcliffe Board of Overseers) whom he is supposed to photograph, and moves away to attach his flash to his camera. He thought Gilbert would be alone...