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First he sent dorm crew kids with mops and scrubbers and brooms. Then painters, a locksmith and window people. Finally I was awakened one morning by a man standing over my bed bellowing in Spanish...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: On the Harvard Dole | 6/2/1992 | See Source »

...through the room across the hall by sticking your head out the window and sliding your legs around the partition. My roommates left by that way but I stuck around in the room to wait for the locksmith to show up and repair the lock," said Balai...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Takes | 10/29/1988 | See Source »

...time a locksmith came and sawed off the lock on the door, a crowd had gathered outside her door, Flynn said. "They all started cheering, with cameras and everything. It was like the baby in the well." Flynn said that the lock on her door was replaced within a few hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Takes | 10/18/1988 | See Source »

Other Members of Team: Bernard Barker, 64, retired last January from $18,512 job as building inspector in Miami after city investigators accused him of working fewer hours than he claimed. Virgilio R. Gonzalez, 56, master locksmith, runs general discount store in Miami with his wife. Eugenic Martinez, 60, heads leasing department of Miami Chevrolet dealer. James McCord, 63, electronics expert whose letter to Judge John Sirica began to unravel coverup, runs small solar-energy firm in Fort Collins, Colo. Frank Sturgis, 57, self-styled "Communist fighter," sells videotapes in Miami. Claims "Watergate financially destroyed me." Plotted bizarre attempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aftermath of a Burglary | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

...programmed disc and write them onto the blank. Manufacturers, of course, have tried to prevent this, usually by scrambling the information in such a way that a straightforward reading of the disc will either generate garbage or erase the program. One way around that is a burglary tool called Locksmith. Designed to permit computer owners to make back-up copies of their store-bought discs, the $100 program also can pick open most software written for the Apple. Says the Needham pirate: "If you have Locksmith, you can copy a game in five minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Pranksters, Pirates and Pen Pals | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

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