Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three days after the Korean War began, in June 1950, the U.S. hurriedly put a few rickety, World War II fighters at Long Island's Mitchell Air Force Base on 24-hour alert against the threat of an attack by Soviet intercontinental bombers. Both the threat and the alert have proved to be enduring. This week the U.S. Air Defense Command (ADC) rounds out 15 years of continuous, round-the-clock alert status-and it has come a long way from the time when P47 Thunderbolts and F-51 Mustangs were among the hottest items in its inventory...
...both. Said Sharkey: "Jack Dempsey. If you put him and Joe Louis in a telephone booth to settle it, the guy who'd come out would be Dempsey." The Manassa Mauler is 27 Ibs. over his 188-lb. fighting weight these days. But he walks with the same alert, catlike grace, and he still looks fit to fight his way out of a telephone booth -or most any place else. As Dempsey celebrated his 70th birthday in his Manhattan restaurant last week, they brought out a cake ablaze with a candle for each year. Jack got them all with...
After giving Hollywood a whole series of Armageddon operas-On the Beach, Dr. Strangelove, Fail Safe-fiction's doom boom has worn pretty thin. But not too thin for Welshman Peter George, 41, who co-authored the Strangelove script and wrote the novel, Red Alert, on which it was based. In Commander-1, he uses the familiar formula-headline-fresh immediacy wrapped around a minute kernel of plausibility. Red China, newly armed with a few primitive but potent nuclear bombs, decides to eliminate both Russia and the U.S. by convincing each that the other has launched...
Disregard for Nasser. Asifa's membership is under 200 and limited to Palestinian Arabs between 20 and 30 years of age. Each volunteer takes an oath, on the Bible if a Christian, on the Koran if a Moslem, that he will 1) be on an alert status 24 hours a day, 2) tell no one of his activities and 3) never discuss a mission he has been on. Asifa is typical of other terrorist groups in that its members are organized into small cells, and only the cell leader has contact with one man in the echelon above...
Some perpetually alert Harvard critics have been quick to point to Harvard's propensity to admit neurotics, but the reasons for the increase appear to be subtle. The annual report utters the comforting pronouncement that while the number of students who did require admission to a mental hospital increased by 25 per cent (from 20 to 25), "the reasons for the increase are not clear; no significant new distressing factors were evident." Most people's problems were apparently solved with some ease; "usually five to ten interviews spaced at weekly intervals served to resolve their immediate difficulties or at least...