Word: lock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enter the P-4 lab, scientists must first change into special protective clothing, then pass through an air lock designed to keep contaminants out; to leave, even if only for lunch, lab workers must pass through another air lock, strip off their protective clothing and then pass through a shower. At no time will the scientists involved in P-4 experiments come into direct contact with the materials under study. Those tests will be conducted inside "glove boxes," glass-fronted stainless steel cabinets fitted with shoulder-length rubber gloves that enable workers to manipulate the culture dishes, test tubes...
...Jack Matlick. In the seven years after Frank Brach's death, the muscular onetime deliveryman practically became lord of the manor. He directed workmen around the estate and took care of business for "the missus." He knew every detail of her life, even that she stored a lock of her hair in an ivory box in her bedroom. Says John Demand, a former detective who participated in the investigation: "I had the strange feeling that Matlick had taken over her entire personality." He even used her glasses to read...
...survey shows that 67 per cent of Harvard undergraduates do not lock their doors when they are out of their rooms, 25 per cent fail to use firescreens for their fireplaces, and 48 per cent want instruction in self defense...
...down on the corner, harmonizing on the Top 40. Raised in a solidly middle-class section of Hicksville, Long Island, Joel, 28, began piano lessons at four, but also boxed in school and hung out with the sort of hell raisers that would have made Virginia's mother double-lock the door. Here is how he tells it: "You got into junior high, you could go one of three ways. You could be a collegiate, a hitter or a brownie?the kid who wears brown shoes with white socks, carries a schoolbag and always gets the monitor jobs...
...Dean's Committee on Security will recommend in its report to be released next week that the University improve outside lighting, lock outside doors and make other changes that will vary from House to House, Thomas A. Dingman '67, director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Parents Association and chairman of the committee, said yesterday...