Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...would be set off in an emergency by a specific voltage transmitted by the local power companies. Such a buzzer system, named NEAR (National Emergency Alarm Repeater), has already been devised and tested. The indoor buzzers would be supplemented with outdoor loudspeakers scattered throughout every city. In case of attack, these loudspeakers would carry a warning signal, followed by instructions on what...
...effective warning system, says the O.R.O. report, is an indispensable first step toward an adequate civil defense. It is "impractical" to expect a nuclear-attack shelter program to get under way "as long as it is uncertain or unlikely that the shelters could be reached in time...
...full view of Castro spotters on the hills surrounding Guantanamo last week, some 3,000 U.S. sailors and marines with full combat gear moved into position in an "exercise" simulating the defense of the base against overland attack. At the same time. Rear Admiral Allen Smith Jr., commander of the Caribbean Sea Frontier, announced that U.S. minefields, "plainly marked," have been planted just inside the fence around Guantanamo's 24-mile perimeter. So that there could be no lingering doubt as to U.S. intentions, agreeing to modification of these agreements, and will take whatever steps may be appropriate...
...diseases are more mysterious than viral hepatitis-a liver inflammation for which there is no known cure, caused by at least two elusive viruses that no scientist has ever seen. Operating under a dozen aliases (e.g., bilious attack, acute yellow atrophy), hepatitis has occasionally been confused with such unrelated ailments as malaria and mononucleosis, was once believed to be a penalty for excessive drinking. During World War II hepatitis was epidemic in the armed forces of the major combatants as well as in many civilian populations, and more than 170,000 cases were reported in the U.S. Army alone. Because...
...Actor Burton took on a virus that almost choked off his singing voice, and the traditional "company cold" spread to Sir Lancelot (Robert Goulet), was even worse in Boston than Toronto. A chorus girl ran a needle through her foot onstage. Frederick Loewe, who himself suffered a severe heart attack two years ago, was temporarily felled by influenza. "We are all quitting," said one stage manager. "We will be replaced tomorrow by hospital orderlies...