Word: exits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus, some time between the moment his French visitor saw Khrushchev's exit from his Black Sea home and the time Tass announced the news of his removal, Communism's most raucous, most human, most infuriating, and in many ways most fascinating dictator had been deposed and replaced by two of his underlings...
...sweepers to stoves but whose healthy profits (more than $11 million in 1963) have offset auto losses. No one expects any major Studebaker comeback (the company now has only one-half of 1% of the U.S. auto market), and Detroit would not be surprised if Studebaker eventually completed its exit from the auto business. But Studebaker is stubbornly hopeful. "We're living hand to mouth," says one executive, "but every day our hand gets to our mouth a little faster...
Bernays also declared that many experts feel that the underpasses are unnecessary and that the opening of the Massachusetts Turnpike's Cambridge exit had eased traffic on Memorial Drive. Last fall the Cambridge Planning Board opposed the underpasses and proposed a $100,000 plan of automated traffic control, which, it claimed, would largely solve rush-hour congestion on the Drive
...Metal Insert. The answer to the librarians' plight may lie in an electronic device demonstrated last week in Flint, Mich. Playing the part of a thief, a Flint librarian slipped a library book under his coat, then walked boldly to the exit. There was a loud click as the turnstile locked, then a buzzing noise as the librarian was alerted. Even as the "thief" sheepishly explained that he "forgot" to sign out his book, a patron whose book had been properly checked out strode easily through the same turnstile...
...principle of magnetism. A sliver of magnetized metal is hidden somewhere in a book's spine or binding, and the librarian who checks the book out simply demagnetizes the metal insert by passing the book through a coil carrying an electric current. If a thief bolts for the exit instead of the check-out desk, the magnetized metal inside his book is detected by an instrument that trips a solenoid hidden at the door; the turnstile is automatically locked and the librarian alerted. A sign over the door explains all with a succinct message: "If turnstile is locked, please...