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Fears about the security of corporate secrets have created a ready market for novel mechanisms designed to foil industrial espionage, kidnapings or other such capers. Perhaps the most advanced product currently available is an attache case whose electronic gear rivals that found in an AWACS plane. Known as the Secret $26,000. Briefcase, it weighs 22 lbs. fully loaded and costs...
...growing plants on flatbeds that he can wheel into the barn at the first buzz of a light plane. Other growers protect their crops with armed guards, attack dogs, pit traps studded with sharpened sticks and trip wires attached to crossbows. Farmers say the measures are taken to foil rustlers more than the police. Still, they present a menace to both. A deputy sheriff in Oklahoma was shot to death last fall by a guard who had mistaken him for a thief...
HOSPITALIZED. Vladimir Smirnov, 28, Soviet 1980 Olympic gold medal winner in the individual foil; in critical condition and "clinically dead" after a freak accident during a championship fencing match; in Rome. When Smirnov and West Germany's Matthias Behr lunged simultaneously, the tip of Behr's foil struck Smirnov's chest protector with unusual force. The blade snapped off at the tip; the jagged end then sprang upward, cut through Smirnov's wire-mesh face protector and sank between his left eye and left frontal lobe, severing an artery and piercing his brain...
...MORAL Foil appears in his jilted lover. Lona Hessel, who had run off to America with her half-brother Johan and now returns to settle affairs. Lona, fearless and true, shakes Bernicks settled world and brings him back to life by destroying his lie-based success. Nina Bernstein, one of the few bright points in last spring's Mainstage production of Agamem non, brings energy and sensitivity to a role which could otherwise degenerate into the story of an honest, but plodding pioneer. Bernstein's Lona becomes the focal point of nearly every scene she appears in as she dances...
DIED. Don Wilson, 81, orotund announcer and foil for Jack Benny on radio and TV for more than 30 years; of a blood clot to the brain; in Palm Springs, Calif. In his most familiar routine, Wilson protested, "But, Jack," in mock dismay at not being able to get the commercial started...