Word: stored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's snow-shovelers, porters, lab-technicians, and food-servers are in store for some joyful recognition if Barbara Brandt...
JOHN BRYANT fought through the fuzz of last night's sleeping pill as the 7 a.m. newsman, activated by the clock-radio, flicked through the details of yesterday's muggings, liquor-store holdups and sniper attacks. John groped for the light switch-and inadvertently brushed against the "panic button" on the $700 Tel-Guard alarm console connected to his telephone. Obediently, the system silently dialed the operator and automatically began repeating a recorded message: "Emergency at 250 Lincoln Street. Emergency at 250 Lincoln Street...
Picture Payments. The rest of the morning passed peacefully enough-until shortly before noon, when John ducked out to shop for a present for his girl friend's birthday. He had spotted just the thing a few days earlier in a nearby department store: a $1.49 Protectalarm-a battery-operated siren designed to be carried in a woman's purse...
...walked through the store, John was followed every step of the way by closed-circuit TV cameras that transmitted his image to a monitoring room upstairs. He found the Protectalarm, pulled out his checkbook, and waited patiently while a new clerk figured out how to work the still camera that photographed every customer paying by check. In her confusion, the clerk wrapped the package without first removing the tags. One of them was a wafer, specially radiated to set off a Knogo sonic alarm in the doorway of the store. John had barely reached the sidewalk when he was surrounded...
...those riches, however, the life of King Saud ibn Abdul Aziz al Fais al al Saud was poor in many of the things which the world's more ordinary people set store by. His health was bad. His favorite sons proved disap pointing and profligate. Like many exorbitantly rich men, he was gnawed at times by doubts as to the sincerity of his professed friends. He ruled Saudi Arabia for only eleven of his 67 years, then was forced by his own brother to surrender the throne. Born in exile in Kuwait, where his parents had taken refuge from...