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...stickers on cars along Miami's Flagler Street. To attract new depositors, the city's Lincoln Savings and Loan Association offers not toasters or blenders, but pocket cans of spray repellent. Newly acquired Doberman guard dogs growl inside increasing numbers of Bade County homes; sales of sophisticated burglar alarm systems and rudimentary iron bars for doors are booming. Says a Miami policeman: "Sometimes I think I'm in Dodge City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Absolute War in Our Streets | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

...this year, at least 32 suspected criminals have been shot to death by gun-toting citizens. After Joseph Petrillo, 35, shot and killed a 14-year-old suspected burglar caught ransacking his Carol City home, the boy's mother sobbed: "I can't blame the man. If somebody had been in my house and I had a gun, I might have shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Absolute War in Our Streets | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

...interactive system, much like the QUBE system used in Columbus, Ohio, would allow city officials to poll residents on local issues, and even permit the network to be used for burglar and fire alarms and to monitor energy use, the committee says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Report Suggests City Install Two Cable Television Systems | 10/7/1980 | See Source »

...whores of Pocock, mothers of abomination, housewives wallowing in your adulteries, the Lord will smite you. Lolling in your tubs scented with bath oils, in houses equipped with burglar and fire alarms. But what are ye safe from while imperiling your own souls? For he who said he would come as a thief in the night will do even so, and all your alarms will avail you naught in that hour when ye shall see him face to face . . . For in that dread day you shall get the message. Without CB . . . it shall be, that's it, buddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Where Love and Lechery Overlap | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

...knows how deeply the worms have eaten?" Stern wonders. "We all think we sleep safely in our beds, the mortgage payments up to date, the house insured, the burglar alarm operative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dear Theo | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

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