Word: sirens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Student protests by the dozens won't persuade fire officials to silence the noontime blast of the Civil Defense siren stop Littauer, Deputy Fire Chief Edmund Burke said yesterday...
Fire officials have received a number of student protests about the blasts, according to Burke, and most of them come shortly after noon on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday--the time the siren is tested...
...siren can't be silenced, Burke said, because they have to make sure that it is still working, and that is three times weekly...
...siren was granted the city by the Federal government on the condition that it be used only for air raid alert within the five-mile Littauer area. But even if it does, fire officials quietly wish that the protests went to Washington. After all, they say, the machine belongs to the Federal government...
...Japan's Emperor Hirohito greeted the New Year with his traditional annual poem, which as usual had the lilt wrung out of it in translation. The royal quat rain: "Stout are the hearts/Of men who toil/At their honest calling/Enduring heat and cold." Cinemactress Ava Gardner, a restless siren who has spent the past month roving the world and attending national premieres of her latest movie, The Barefoot Contessa, popped up in Stockholm. She wore shoes to a party in her honor, pursed her moist lips prettily to get a kiss from Swedish Cinemogul Anders Sandrew, who surprised everyone...