Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...footing. Cairo's streets were clogged with military convoys heading eastward. Airraid drills blacked out Cairo, Alexandria and the Jordanian section of Jerusalem. In Israel, schoolchildren were put to work sandbagging their schools, and car owners were drafted for emergency duty hauling food supplies to supermarkets mobbed by panic buyers. Tourists, warned by their governments to get out of the Middle East, scuffled with one another for seats on outgoing flights, and airlines rushed in extra planes to try to handle the overload. In Cairo, U.S. Ambassador Richard Nolte ordered the "temporary departure" of 400 embassy wives and children...
...shopping hour, Catherine Seydel, a 22-year-old student, picked out a dress she liked and entered a third-floor booth to try it on. Suddenly she heard a thunderous rumble on the floor above her. When she emerged from the booth, she entered a maelstrom of fear and panic. In rapid succession, flames had erupted in at least three locations around the store. Two of the store's 15 full-time firemen-the building had no sprinklers-tried to douse the flames with hand extinguishers, but retreated in the fast-gathering heat and smoke. Panic seized the some...
...before they could raise their ladders or spread their nets. "One man was transformed into a living torch before my eyes as he hesitated to leap from a high window," said Fireman Jacques Mesmans. Others, luckier, landed atop parked cars and escaped with bruises and broken bones. Amid the panic, the flames climbed to the roof, where bottles of butane gas for sale to campers sealed the building's fate with a staccato of explosions...
...Panic. One of Upward Bound's more successful programs is Western Washington State's Project Overcome, which carefully guided 50 teenagers, about one-third of them Negroes, through two pleasant summers in Bellingham before inviting them to join the 5,400 regular students on campus last fall. After the cozy summer tutoring in such basic subjects as reading, history and math, most of the 50 panicked amid the confusion of registration and the difficulty of lengthy reading assignments. An Indian girl took one look at the teeming campus, grabbed the next bus to her home in Yakima...
...borrowers. Many companies, having spent so much to keep up with the economic spree of the past six years, were borrowing to replenish their coffers or pay off short-term bank loans. Says Donald C. Miller, vice president of Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co.: "The difficulties of the money panic last fall are still so real that companies do not want to go through that again." Guy E. Noyes, senior vice president of Manhattan's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., blames much of the demand on businessmen's desire to "beat the central bank" by borrowing before the Reserve...