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...Pill. The stock of Pinkerton's, Inc. (see BOOKS), the 118-year-old outfit that went public in 1967 at $23 a share, is now trading at $51. Federal Sign and Signal, a Chicago maker of police sirens, has gone from $19 to $42 in the past year. American Safety Equipment Corp., whose sales of $26.75 police helmets more than tripled in 1968, has jumped from $10 to $16. Other companies in the police market have seen their stocks rise...
...from Billy Clubs. Though the industry remains balkanized, takeovers and acquisitions are increasing. The biggest and broadest-gauged company in the field is Bangor Punta Corp., a Manhattan-based conglomerate that has acquired five suppliers of law-enforcement equipment over the past three years. Among them is the maker of Chemical Mace, the liquid-tear-gas spray. Sales of law-enforcement equipment now account for about 9% of the Bangor Punta's $259 million annual sales and 30% of its $22 million pre-tax profits. The company broke into the market in 1965 by acquiring Smith & Wesson, whose revolvers...
LIKE bobbed hair, wedgie shoes and the free lunch, passenger trains have gone out of style. In the past decade, with the rise in air travel, railroad passenger business has dropped more than 40%, and 13 lines have stopped intercity service. Many travelers might return to the rails if they could be assured of a clean, comfortable and fast ride. Unwilling to give up on passengers entirely, a few U.S. railroads are now preparing to give them just that by introducing new trains that travel at speeds of more than 100 m.p.h...
...dramatic journalistic writing, Silence on Monte Sole is a professional success. Yet after the hundreds of dramatic reconstructions of the inhuman acts of World War II-acts whose memory is kept fresh by the knowledge of continuing inhumanity-the value of the genre itself is in doubt. The past 25 years have conclusively demonstrated that no reconstruction of human suffering, no matter how skillfully or compassionately done, can compare with the unadorned voices of the survivors, who, in autobiography and war-crimes testimony, told of their times in words born of the most painful silences...
...itinerant cooper from the Glasgow slums, young Allan came to Chicago in 1842 as a fugitive, escaping the consequences of his past as a radical agitator. The time and the place could not have been more propitious for a man with an extravagant taste for self-righteousness and the sort of brawn developed by swinging a ten-pound cooper's hammer. Mid-19th century Chicago was beginning America's painful, often bloody transition from frontier to urban society. Law enforcement was faltering between mere inefficiency and dedicated corruption. Into the power vacuum stepped the indefatigable, incorruptible Pinkerton, self...