Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minutes on Saturday morning, it might have seemed that General Jack D. Ripper, the manic guardian of "precious bodily fluids" from Dr. Strangelove, was at the controls. From the Army's civil defense warning center in Colorado's Cheyenne Mountain, a signal was flashed directly onto the wires of the Associated Press and United Press International. It was a notification that the nation was in a state of emergency, confirmed by an appropriately sinister code "authenticator"-HATEFULNESS, HATEFULNESS. Scores of radio and television stations across the nation broadcast the emergency...
...turned out that the warning center, which regularly transmits a taped test message to the news-service wires, had inadvertently sent an actual warning tape. To unstick the panic button and resolve the confusion, the center finally got through the prearranged code signal canceling the alert. Quite unintentionally, it sounded a sardonically witty note: CANCEL MESSAGE SENT AT 09:33 EST. MESSAGE AUTHENTICATOR: IMPISH, IMPISH...
Manolo is always there: waiting by the buzzer in his third-floor White House apartment or West Wing office for the signal to retrieve papers or bring the tray from the kitchen for a working lunch. He serves as a one-man gallery for presidential bowling in the basement, sits quietly in the Executive Office Building hideaway while Nixon works alone late at night, gives the word to Secret Service men and military aides about the departure time for presidential trips. He is the one free spirit of the White House, the pet of secretaries and staff members, who jokes...
...years, mostly by affluent executives. For example, W.E. van Loben Sels, 52, turned over his asphalt business to his son and founded Oakville Vineyards in the Napa Valley, a prime wine area north of San Francisco. Russell Green gave up his $100,000-a-year job as president of Signal Oil & Gas Co. to buy the sleepy Simi Winery Co. in Healdsburg. Both Switzerland's Nestlé and Connecticut's Heublein purchased Napa Valley wineries last year. Though it can take a decade to reap any return from new vines, Widmer's Wine Cellars of New York...
Senior John Enscoe scored signal victories in the mile and 1000-yard run while Dave Elliott, coming off a foot injury, won the 600-yard run and ran anchor on the winning two-mile relay...