Word: billfold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Munoz, 28, a wiry migrant worker from Texas, was picking tomatoes on a farm near Lake Worth, Fla., when four agents of the U.S. Immigration Service swooped down on the field in a search for illegal immigrants. They asked Munoz for his identity papers, but he had lost his billfold and so he had nothing to show them. "I told them I was from Harlingen, Texas," Munoz recalls, "but they just said, 'Get in the truck...
...team of German researchers now appears to have found one. Physicist Hans Stephan and Drs. Hans Stoboy and Adalbert Schaede have developed a device called a Cardiomed that monitors the working heart and tells when it is not beating at the proper rate. Not much larger than a billfold, the battery-operated gadget checks on the heart through electrodes stuck on the chest. It emits a single beep whenever the heart rate falls below a predetermined lower limit, a double beep whenever it rises above a preset ceiling. Doctors who have experimented with the device (retail price: $280) find...
Harvard came back feeling like the tourist who has had his billfold, watch, and cufflinks removed by skillful fingers, only to be mugged on the way to the airport...