Word: burglars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made possible home computer systems that sell for less than $800?and prices will continue to fall. Many domestic devices that use electric power may be computerized. Eventually, the household computer will be as much a part of the home as the kitchen sink; it will program washing machines, burglar and fire alarms, sewing machines, a robot vacuum cleaner and a machine that will rinse and stack dirty dishes. When something goes wrong with an appliance, a question to the computer will elicit repair instructions ?in future generations, repairs will be made automatically. Energy costs will...
...elderly black sisters were knitting and singing We Shall Overcome in the kitchen of their small Boston house one hot night last summer when a convicted burglar burst through the back door and demanded money. The intruder, 6 ft. 4 in. and 220 lbs., viciously beat the two women before fleeing. Police captured him a short time later. Thanks to clogged conditions in many urban courts, suspects in felony cases often relax on the street for a year or more and eventually extract a light, plea-bargained sentence from beleaguered prosecutors. But only 61 days after the Boston assault...
...unexplained "library fund." The two former officials, along with G. Speights McMichael, another aide to Hoover, were also held responsible for a questionable business arrangement. This involved purchases of electronic equipment, without competitive bidding, from the Washington-based U.S. Recording Co. between 1963 and 1975. One such purchase of burglar-alarm equipment in 1971 cost $147,261.50, while the same equipment could have been bought from a New York supplier for $81,357. An agent who complained about the cozy -and illegal-purchasing arrangement was told he was not a "team player" and transferred. Apparently, the Hoover aides valued...
...occasion, José was assigned to bomb a U.S.-owned store in San Juan. A specialist in burglar alarms carried out the actual breakin. Then an explosives expert brought in two bombs while a heavily armed third terrorist waited in a car pondering some special instructions. "The bomb people were very important to us," José recalls. "So the getaway driver would give his word that he would fight if there was trouble, to give his comrade time to escape...
...policeman collars a mugger on a busy downtown street, but in his haste to make the arrest he forgets to take the names of any witnesses. A burglar is nabbed just as he is leaving the scene of the crime, but while the case against him seems powerful, his loot somehow gets lost in the labyrinth of police headquarters, and he must be set free. A woman catches a second-story man in her house, engages him in conversation, gives him a drink to get his fingerprints. When he flees she calls the police, who refuse to dust the glass...