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...reflects an enforced change in American life. The new auto steering-wheel locks, for instance, get credit for much of the drop in car thefts. The same sort of result is achieved when taxi drivers carry little change to be robbed of, and when their cabs are equipped with bulletproof partitions. Young women who live alone are safer when they keep dogs in their apartments; welfare clients are foiling mailbox thieves by picking up their checks in person; and elderly Boston women are going to morning Mass in self-protecting groups of ten to 20. One of the most important...
...Chinese Society Restaurant, shooed owners and clients out with a pistol, then hidden their timed gelignite device in the kitchen. The explosion, 30 minutes later, gouged a huge hole in the building, while a spray of glass rained down from smashed windowpanes in nearby houses. As British soldiers in bulletproof vests and blue-coated Royal Ulster Constabulary men rushed up, a single rifle shot sent them diving for cover. Townspeople cowered in alleys and shop entrances. Then another volley of shots, and a man was dragged to safety. It turned out that he was an innocent passerby, caught...
...apply with his 373 delegates. It has been for him a grim and courageous convalescence. After appearing at a Mass in Maryland and reading the 23rd Psalm, Wallace flew in an Air Force jet supplied by Richard Nixon to Montgomery, Ala., where, seated in his wheelchair behind a low, bulletproof lectern, he delivered an airport speech, a wan version of his old campaign rousers. Then he flew on to Miami. All the while, a stop-McGovern coalition led by Arkansas' Wilbur Mills continued its last-minute efforts. A small Washington group of strategists bent on heading off the South...
...sessions. If he promises his support, the reward can jump to as high as $15,000 for an ordinary delegate and $30,000 for the leader of a faction. In some cases, the faction leader will make special payments of perhaps $3,300-known as a bodan chokkl, or "bulletproof vest"-to his followers, thereby enabling him to deliver their votes in a bloc to the candidate of his choice...
That scrutiny has been enhanced by television. The political leader is always on view, with few chances for escape. Thus George Wallace makes a speech behind a bulletproof lectern-and then darts out to shake hands with a crowd that includes his would-be assassin, who seeks the same limelight. John Wilkes Booth, a professional actor, plotted to murder Abraham Lincoln in a theater where he would have a captive audience. Contemporary assassins are supplied with a much larger stage by television. They know that their deed, or its immediate aftermath, will be witnessed by millions of horror-struck citizens...