Word: patroller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What price lobster? So valued are the tasty crustaceans that two U.S. states are in a boiling dispute. Last January a New Hampshire lobsterman was arrested by a Maine patrol boat for fishing north of the rather vague boundary separating the two states' ocean waters. New Hampshire's Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr. promptly hoisted the colors. He suggested that Maine Governor Kenneth Curtis drop the charges. Curtis ignored him, and the lobsterman was convicted and fined...
...officials will no doubt be lined with lead to foil electronic snoopers; windows, even those high up, will be etched with sensor tape, attuned both to touch and long-range bugging beams; closed-circuit television sets will monitor every door and elevator, and squads of men in gumshoes will patrol rooftops...
...high school he was nicknamed "Chief" because his slightly stooped frame (6 ft., 200 lbs.) resembled a cigar-store Indian silhouette. Now, behind his back, subordinates call him Dick Tracy because of his fondness for technological gadgetry (such as Kansas City's computerized information system and helicopter patrol, which he instituted) and his square-jawed resemblance to the comic-strip...
Earlier this year Tonis's force of 75 uniformed and armed University Police was bolstered by the addition of a 15-man student security patrol, equipped with two-way radios. Hall said that the force was so successful in helping University Police spot crimes, small fires and other problems around Harvard that it was increased to 40 students. The students, who are paid a wage above $3 an hour to work shifts from 12 midnight to 8 a.m., are instructed to call the police on their radios if they spot any suspicious persons or anything that seems...
Personal collectors offer the additional benefit of being able to say "Thank you" or "Welcome to Connecticut." State authorities expect to save $ 120,000 a year on motorists who formerly slipped by the automatic collectors without paying. Attendants will at least be able to shout or call the highway patrol...