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Companies are also making thicker vaults. Chicago's First National Bank has put in vault doors that weigh 87 tons each, the world's heaviest. Doors that size carry a heavy price: $300,000. Most equipment men concede that given enough time a burglar can crack any safe. He has a superweapon: the burning bar. Developed for demolition work, it is a long pipe filled with a magnesium compound that cuts through almost anything...
Inefficiency. Instead of getting tougher, says Clark, U.S. lawmen should get smarter. The present system is so inefficient that most crimes are never even reported; of those known to the police, barely one in nine results in a conviction. The odds against a burglar's being convicted are roughly 12 to 1: even for murder the odds are better than 4 to 1. Clark's description of American prisons, which he calls "factories of crime," suggests that the greatest service they could perform would be to free most of their inmates tomorrow...
Relative calm descended with darkness, but tension remained. Some 1,200 sheriff's deputies were summoned to the area. Burglar alarms echoed into the night, and red-lighted sheriff's cruisers prowled the boulevard, while small knots of angry Mexican Americans gathered along barricades set up at the side streets. More than 70 people were arrested. At least 26 demonstrators and 26 deputies were injured; one man was seriously hurt when he was shot in the head as he tried to drive through a blockade and crashed into a utility pole...
...coaxial cables, though larger than telephone cord, have 1,000 times the communications capacity. Washington willing, the U.S. could be transformed into what some call "the wired nation." Within ten years, CATV's two-way conduits could provide set-side shopping and banking, dial-a-movie service, a burglar and fire watch, and facsimile print-outs of newspapers or even library books...
Trucks from several glass companies, strolling spectators with cameras, and men selling iron grates and burglar alarms filled the Square yesterday as businessmen surveyed the damage from Wednesday night's riot...