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Word: alarm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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...security was not all that asleep. The Secret Service got word of a letter Pavlick had written, proclaiming his ambitions. A nationwide alarm went out for his arrest. On Royal Poinciana Way in Palm Beach last week, a policeman spotted Pavlick's car, arrested him for driving on the wrong side of the center line. In the car, police officers found the dynamite. "In a way, I'm glad it's turned out the way it has," said Richard Pavlick as he was held on $100,000 bail for the first assassination attempt on Jack Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Man from Peyton Place | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

...late the next morning before anyone realized that Patrice Lumumba had escaped. Hastily, Military Boss Colonel Joseph Mobutu dashed to a telephone to sound the alarm and begin the chase. Out went telegrams to outposts around the country ordering "nationwide vigilance by every Congolese to capture the traitor"; roadblocks were set up on all the roads, and runways at the airport were blocked just in case Lumumba was still in town. Lumumba himself left a note behind saying that he had merely gone to Stanleyville to attend the funeral of one of his children who had died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGO: Bringing Him Back Alive | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

...morning fire yesterday destroyed the Poet's theater building just one block from Harvard Square. The two-alarm blaze brought firemen to the scene at 24-28 Palmer Street at 10:30 a.m., and the fire wasn't declared "all out" until almost six hours later...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Double-Alarm Fire Guts Poets' Theatre | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

...year have come not from the "strife-torn" Congo, but from the cultural capital of the American South. The good women of New Orkans, who so fear four small girls that they must shout obscenities at those who fear ignorance more, may well turn more stomachs and cause more alarm than any massaore at Sharpeville...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Belles Are Ringing | 12/9/1960 | See Source »

...same issue, Sports Illustrated registers alarm that Johns Hopkins thinks there are things more important than football. Despite de-emphasis, the Hopkins' eleven was 7-1 a year ago, but the student body, distracted by Maryland and Navy football, the Baltimore Colts, and soccer, is not very interested. After polling 20 students to find out the reasons for this apathy, S.I. concluded that "the majority of the students seem to blame the school's a athletic policy." Their solution for lack of interest is to pour more money into the game, an answer which is just what must be avoided...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Last Gasp for Amateur Athletics | 12/6/1960 | See Source »

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