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...about checking out the rooms for electronic listening bugs. They found instead a huge time bomb, planted by persons unknown, which they managed to defuse just before zero hour. After some understandably excited exchanges with their Iranian hosts, the newcomers packed up their gear and departed for presumably safer quarters...
...addition to the glitz and the glamour, the Tokyo show demonstrated some dazzling applications of modern electronics and semiconductor technology that make cars cheaper, safer and easier to drive. Japanese manufacturers are using computers on a chip to improve fuel economy, monitor the engine and even make a new electronically controlled transmission operate smoothly. Three separate companies exhibited an electronic map display mounted on the dashboard that points out the car's destination, gives instructions on the best route to follow and notes the progress of the trip...
...playin' it safer...
Take-offs on Chaucer ("There was a Knight, a worthy for the chaffre./ He lovede gold, and was a Pornografer...) and Shakespeare (To draw, or not to draw,--that is the question:--/ Whether 'tis safer in the player to take/ The awful risk of skinning for a straight,/ Or, standing pat, to raise 'em all the limit/ And thus, by bluffing, get in...) abound...
Microwave ovens, made for home use since the mid-1950s but only truly popular in their newer, "safer" versions since the early 1970s, are seen by some experts as the coming gadget for the 1980s and beyond. Says Harvard's Masnick: "You can come home from work, take the chicken out of the freezer and have it on the dinner table in an hour." Also useful, says he, for houses where both spouses work, are security systems "to protect homes that stand empty...