Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hangar bay far below, when a shouting sailor burst from a 15-ft.-square locker near by. Be hind him was an ominously hissing stack of 700 Mark-24 magnesium parachute flares. He barely had time to dog down the hatch on the locker and race for a phone when the flares began to explode. Fire bells clanged; klaxons sounded the call to general quarters. Loudspeakers shrilled: "This is no drill! This is no drill...
Word that Harvard has revived an 11-year old plan for a Faculty housing project in the Shady Hill area touched off a wave of phone calls to the University yesterday, along with demands that neighbors have some say in what happens to the six-acre tract Harvard owns there...
...Phone calls to the University yesterday came from two quarters: from neighbors concerned about the project near their homes, and from current and future Harvard junior Faculty members interested in the potential homes...
Last week fear was tangible in Cincinnati. The demand for tear-gas pens, door chains and bolts, pistols, pocket knives, karate instruction and watchdogs was unprecedented. One ad to sell three German shepherds brought 75 phone calls in two hours. Newspapers have run police-prepared instructions on how women should defend themselves by biting, kicking, screaming or scratching. A grocery chain imported 100,000 plastic whistles to give to its customers. Deliverymen have set up complex systems of passwords with hundreds of housewives who feel as if they are under siege...
...conditioned annex to his house. More J & B Scotch than ever, though he shifts to champagne on taping day. The same omnipresent "executive secretary," Honey Merrill, who has been with Gleason for ten years. No nostalgia for New York City that he can't appease with daily phone calls to his friends and three visits a year. And no more talk of retirement. "Why should I quit?" asks he, "when I can get a laugh on 'Aw, shut...