Word: signalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First word of the disaster came to the U.S. Coast Guard's Boston station radio, which heard the faint words "Pan . . . pan . . . pan . . .," an international signal meaning that an urgent message follows. It was from the Shalom, which had a 40-ft.-long gash in her bow and was shipping tons of sea water into her No. 1 hold. Minutes later, a Long Island Coast Guard radio monitored a distress call from the Stolt Dagali. The Coast Guard asked Washington's Federal Communications Commission for a radio fix on the vessels. Navy and Coast Guard helicopters and planes...
Besides the philosophical bankruptcy of the distribution plan, its adoption would mean an abnegation of Faculty control over the content and quality of Gen Ed; would make the continuation of traditional Gen Ed courses dependent on the dubious test of popularity; would, in short, signal a cowardly retreat from educational responsibility...
Inevitably they strike Western visitors as robotlike. In Canton's main park 3,000 Communist youth at a signal begin wildly cheering a Western businessman, and at another signal, just as obediently, they stop. People seem terrified to accept even the smallest gift from foreigners, evidently for fear of being tabbed as spies. Visiting coeducational Sian University, a French Deputy asks a question natural to any Frenchman: "Does the proximity of 5,000 boys and 2,000 girls pose any problems?" There are puzzled stares, and the rector replies: "What sort of problems?" The French visitor: "Sexual problems...
...insists that he gets "more distance, more power, more accuracy," and he may signal a whole new fad in kicking...
...name Evelyn "from a whim of my mother's. I have never liked the name." He borrows an anecdote from much later in life to illustrate why: "Once during the Italian-Abyssinian war I went to a military post many miles from any white woman, preceded by a signal apprising them of' the arrival of 'Evelyn Waugh, English writer.' The entire small corps of officers, shaven and polished, turned out to greet me each bearing a bouquet." His childhood in Edwardian England he remembers as idyllic, "an even glow of pure happiness." His memories of boyhood...