Word: intercom
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...They are provided with government security suggestions that cover four pages. Embassies and consulates have been converted into veritable fortresses; in Manhattan, for instance, a potential visitor to the Israeli consulate not only has to pass a policeman but also faces locked doors, and must identify himself over an intercom before he is allowed to enter. In a European school for 1,500 Jewish children, security men have joined the faculty this term as coaches or "assistant administrators." "It's like the blitz," comments William Frankel, editor of London's Jewish Chronicle. "The abnormal has once again become...
...well as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem; fortunately, all were discovered before they could do any damage. Security was strengthened around Israeli offices throughout the world; British police set up a special anti-kidnap patrol; in New York City, visitors to the Israeli U.N. mission communicated through locked doors by intercom and closed-circuit...
...executive jet's engines whined into life on the Orlando tarmac, the pilot's voice crackled over the intercom: "They just cleared us for taxiing calling us Air Force One." George Corley Wallace, 52, was headed back home to Alabama on the morrow of the greatest victory of his turbulent political life -winning a stunning 42% plurality in the eleven-candidate Florida Democratic primary. Lighting up a cigar, clearing his throat of the ever-present phlegm and spitting it into a handkerchief, Wallace was exuberant as he talked with his wife Cornelia and TIME Correspondent Joseph Kane. "They...
Local building ordinances specify that in apartment buildings with over four units there must be both intercom and buzzer lock systems at the main entrance. The building had no intercom system at the time of the stabbing, and the police who investigated the incident told the tenants that the locks on the windows next to the fire escape were unsafe...
...years-the painter Edouard Pignon, his wife Hélène Parmelin, Sir Roland Penrose (who wrote a biography of him), the British collector and art historian Douglas Cooper and Kahnweiler himself. Casual visitors, even ones who have known Picasso for years, are generally turned back by the intercom at the electronically controlled gates of his villa at Mougins, Notre-Dame...