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...place where no student ever misreads a schedule or oversleeps, and every examination comes and goes with administrative smoothness. Unfortunately, about a dozen students every term forget to appear for their tests. And there are even a few adventurous souls who try unsuccessfully to crack the University's virtually airtight security system for printing, guarding, and conducting examinations...
...minutes later, the Moroccans were shot down by a blast of machine-gun bullets. Names like that of the bistro's proprietor are often spoken of in connection with Moroccan antiterrorism. But until unintimidated witnesses stand ready to testify, the officials are helpless. "We need an airtight case," insisted one French authority last week. "We can't risk a trial in which the European terrorists will be acquitted...
...injected dogs are watched with eagle-eyed care. Their urine and feces are examined with sensitive instruments to determine how fast the radioactive matter is being excreted. Sometimes the cages are airtight, so that the dogs' radioactive breath can be measured too. Radioactive wastes are enclosed in concrete and buried far out on a Utah desert...
...confessors," it read, "has met with . . . great praise. It is a patented pigeonhole called Filtravox, usually rectangular in shape, but capable of being applied to any opening in the confessional. Confessors have too often been exposed to the bad breath of penitents, who may even be ill ... The airtight membrane of this device protects the confessors from contagious germs...
Last week police felt they had an airtight case against the Sotgius for inciting to prostitution and corruption of a minor. But when they visited the Sotgius' apartment, they found that the couple had fled. Rome's fascinated newspaper readers promptly labeled Giuseppe Sotgiu a "collectivist of love." Plainly embarrassed, the Rome section of the Communist Party banned Provincial Council President Sotgiu from all party activities until he took steps "fully to restore his honor as a citizen...