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Montgomery Ward has remodeled its spacious outlet in Skokie, Ill., installing new surveillance posts that blend into the décor. Observation towers are disguised as structural supports; protruding mirrors along a wall conceal guards who scan the throngs of shoppers crowding the aisles. Retailers around the country are taking similar security measures. Reason: business is booming in the weeks before Christmas, but so is shoplifting...
...Riots: "If, in your judgment, your presence is clearly inspiring, continuing or intensifying a dangerous, or potentially dangerous, disturbance, cap your cameras and conceal your microphones regardless of what other news organizations may do ... Avoid coverage of 1) self-designated 'leaders' if they appear to represent only themselves or 2) any individuals or groups who are clearly 'performing.' " Had these rules been in force, how different might the history of the 1960s have been...
Earlier in the conference, John D. Deardourff, chairman of the board of a political consulting firm, said in a panel discussion it is "dangerous for women to conceal their career interests, or lack of interest for housekeeping or child-rearing...
...media was at a loss to explain the Fidrych phenomenon, though they attempted to conceal their puzzlement in a blitz of coverage. They asked Fidrych questions, but they werv unsure whether the inchoate answers they received constituted answers. They dug into his past life, talked to his cigar-chomping high school coaches, asked his mother his favorite dish, and visited his old stomping grounds at the gas station. Time and Newsweek featured him with their usual platitudes, running on about the "new baseball fad" or "the teenage symbol." But the more the media mucked and raked, the more they betrayed...
...days later 1,000 radical sympathizers and curiosity-seekers attended a graveside service, also in Stuttgart, for the three Baader-Meinhof gang suicides -Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Gudrun Ensslin. Once again police were there in force as West German radicals -some of them masked to conceal their identities-praised the dead prisoners as martyrs and chanted political slogans. A few carried banners: GUDRUN, ANDREAS AND JAN-TORTURED AND MURDERED AT STAMMHEIM...