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Home-security firms usually affix seals on the windows or doors of their clients' homes to warn would-be prowlers. Householders unable to afford central-station service can buy security seals. "Scare off a burglar" urges an ad for stickers for a nonexistent Federal Detection Alarm System. Price: 40 for $5. More sophisticated hucksters covertly peddle reasonable facsimiles of the decals of reputable firms, including Holmes Electric Protective Co. The fakes cost $100 or more...
Once again, Soviet negotiators have demonstrated their skill at what might be called the "Who, me?" diplomatic gambit. Two months ago, Russia's leaders promised Chancellor Willy Brandt that if he would affix his signature to a renunciation-of-force agreement with the Soviet Union, they would do something about easing the status of isolated West Berlin, 110 miles inside hostile East Germany. Brandt signed the Treaty of Moscow, and as the Big Four talks on Berlin resumed last week in the divided city, everyone waited to see what the Soviets would...
Such things must not be. If Merilee gets lost, that's OK. She has survival capabilities, tribal knowledge. But poor Sam. She wonders how she could affix at least a Boy Scout handbook to him. Especially difficult since in the wilds he is always shucking off his clothes. Maybe we could tattoo the vital information to his white body...
From the mid-Pacific battleground, Sherrod cabled: "A small rock memorial near the Betio Club, blockhouses, big guns-everything but a few shot-up am-tracks visible at low tide belongs to the Japanese. It seems fitting to affix a bronze plaque at the base of a white pylon in memory of the United States Marines who won a unique battle there. They provided the lessons for the rest of the journey...
...Yoshimura, details-from the bronze sheeting on the concrete columns to the pebbles in the garden-were everything. "With design alone," he said, "not even Picasso can do a painting. He has to affix color, and in the process of doing so he will revise the original design for the finest possible overall effect. It's exactly the same with me as an architect...