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Wall Street officials, municipal police and several Government agencies are on the trail of the securities snatchers, but police work is hampered by duplicated efforts and buck passing. One of the more promising steps has been taken by the New York Stock and Pacific Coast Stock Exchanges. They have begun transferring securities by bookkeeping, using a computer. This system could eventually eliminate the hand-to-hand transfer of certificates, often by messenger, a casual practice that is at the heart of most thefts...
...machine guns and kept under armed guard for five hours. "We are always in trouble," says Dan Danieli, a grocer who practices his best manners on surprised hosts. "We get so humble you wouldn't believe it." Even with unplanned landings, boosters like TWA Jumbo Jet Pilot Robert Buck maintain that soaring is no more hazardous than flying in a commercial airliner...
...computer can't, what can--I don't like it or any other computer any better for having seen Hall's wonder-baby in operation. Maybe I'm myopic, but I just don't see the beauty in a machine, even if it does save Harvard a buck or two. And maybe I'm naive, but if Harvard really cares about equalling and surpassing its "competition," it had better pay less attention to expensive computers and more to the things that really count in making a university decent...
...Tennessee and equal the total from U.C.L.A. Tennessee State has produced such current pro stars as the Atlanta Falcons' all-pro defensive end Claude Humphrey and the Kansas City Chiefs' star defensive back Jim Marsalis. Pro teams can thank Grambling for 13 players, including the likes of Buck Buchanan (Chiefs' defensive tackle). Woody Peoples (49ers' guard) and Billy Newsome (Saints' defensive...
...upholstered Mussolini at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. But that is not saying a great deal. The design, with its pleats of white birch, hanging plastic doughnuts and faired-in lights, is weirdly Art Deco: it could be the set for a lavish Buck Rogers movie from the '30s-"Desist, Zorka, or you will destroy the Intergalactic Confederacy...