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...Security Kit. The private ear can buy a "security kit" for about $300. Mosler Research Products Inc. of Danbury, Conn., which claims half the industry's legitimate sales, packs its sets into handsome, standard-size briefcases. Typical contents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Electronics: Bug Thy Neighbor | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

...enemy launched a surprise attack, and I made a quick run with others to a nearby cave on the shore. In my haste I cut my hand on a sharp piece of coral rock. It was a Negro soldier who took a bandage from his own first-aid kit to bind my hand and stem the blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 17, 1964 | 1/17/1964 | See Source »

Stripe Down the Hood. At least, the new Formula Vee (for Volkswagen) class seems inflation-proof. Anybody who has a spare Beetle lying around the garage can turn it into a reasonable facsimile of a Grand Prix car-cigar-shaped body, roll bar and all-by buying a kit for $945. An extra $1,000 buys a brand-new Volkswagen engine, plus a special gearbox, rear axle and suspension-and $2,495 buys the whole 825-lb. bomb from the factory. The family sedan can even be raced as is: just painting a stripe down the hood or a number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: The Beetle Bomb | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

Freshman Quentin Spector, who played rugger in England, shows promise although he may not give much weight to the scrum as wing forward. In lock position at the back of the pack is Kit Barrow, veteran player of three years and former fullback...

Author: By Susan M. Rogers, | Title: Ruggers Confront Villanova Today | 10/12/1963 | See Source »

...corners of the store, among the T-shirts and sneakers, one can still find, for example, an anachronism like the first aid kit containing only a compress bandage and a package of shell wound dressing. Those with the inclination can buy sextants, litters, bayonets, shoulder holsters, jungle hammocks, gas masks and policemen's billies. Central no longer sells dog sleds, as it once did, but the suspicious purchaser in the market for a mine detector is its ideal customer...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: Circling the Squares: The Two Cultures | 10/9/1963 | See Source »

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