Word: guarding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of the statements Albert Hsia made in the article "More Security, Not Vigilance" (Dec. 13) are almost laughable if you look at them closely. As an undergraduate and a Harvard student security guard, I agree that Harvard's security system leaves much to be desired. However, students do indeed bear some of the responsibility for security...
...understand that no one asks for IDs when letting people into entryways and probably will not, if the status quo is maintained. This also necessarily applies to the guard system in heavily trafficked areas...
...world, had lost. In 1940-42 Baker had been a spy of sorts for De Gaulle's Free French, and later in the war, she made endless appearances as a troop entertainer. At the historic Madeleine church, her flag-bedecked coffin was carried past an honor guard, as would have befitted an army veteran. The Minister of Culture and the city's mayor were among those who delivered tributes...
Across the Bay in San Francisco's public library, a chain reaction rippled through the stacks, dumping 250,000 books into piles on the floor. At a meeting of water-pollution-control officials at the Moscone Convention Center, security guard Charles Scott stood with 200 people at an awards ceremony. "Suddenly people were falling off the stage, and the lights went out," he said. "Then everyone panicked and starting running in all directions. I screamed, 'Don't run, don't run!' But people were running over each other, and I was knocked down." Fortunately, no one was seriously hurt...
...been reinforced to help them withstand a powerful quake. Said Peter Lehrer, co-chairman of the Lehrer McGovern Bovis construction firm, which managed the restoration of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island: "There is no excuse for what happened on the Nimitz. We have had the technology to guard against this sort of collapse for years...