Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Memoirs three days after Allende's assassination: "...the tanks went into action, many tanks, fighting heroically against a single man: the President of the Republic of Chile, Salvadore Allende, who was waiting for them in his office, with no other company but his great heart, surrounded by smoke and flames." Five days later the poet for whom Jean-Paul Sartre rejected the Nobel Prize in 1964 died heartbroken, having witnessed in his own country the same tragedy he had seen 35 years before in Spain...
...downtown Cairo, students and workers jammed the squares, setting fire to police stations, buses and trucks and attacking government buildings. The air over Cairo was thick with black smoke from the fires. Shepheard's Hotel, the government-run successor to the old Shepheard's of the imperial past, was stoned. Nightclubs frequented by rich foreign Arabs were burned...
Still, like the Romans' feathered friends, the smokeys can help assure a restful night. A Los Angeles fireman who bought several battery-powered smoke detectors for his home put them unopened in the basement. Later that night they all erupted in wild ululation. A fire had started. The family survived...
...federally sponsored study of the "chance of escape after alarm" in several deliberately ignited homes showed that one heat sensor in every room provided only an 11% escape potential, while one smoke detector at each level of the house gave an 89% chance of escape. Many states and cities now require smoke detectors in all houses and apartments before they are sold or resold. The Federal Government will not approve a VA or FHA new housing loan unless the structure has detectors; Montgomery County, Md., will require all homes to be equipped with the sensors by July 1, 1978. Most...
...Home smoke detectors were first marketed in quantity only three years ago, but they are already a red-hot industry. Last year some 4 million were sold, and sales are expected to increase by 50% in 1977. The prices for various models range from $25 to $45 and are dropping fast among the 80 to 100 rival brand-name distributors. Smoke detectors work either through photo-electric cells or an ionization device,? but fire officials generally agree that there is minimal difference in effectiveness between the two. They also warn that the occupants' chances of escape from a burning...