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Home-security firms usually affix seals on the windows or doors of their clients' homes to warn would-be prowlers. Householders unable to afford central-station service can buy security seals. "Scare off a burglar" urges an ad for stickers for a nonexistent Federal Detection Alarm System. Price: 40 for $5. More sophisticated hucksters covertly peddle reasonable facsimiles of the decals of reputable firms, including Holmes Electric Protective Co. The fakes cost $100 or more...
Bargaining Chip. The White House insists, for several reasons, on considering the whole mix of offensive and defensive weapons simultaneously. For one thing, many U.S. disarmament experts warn that the Soviets, by improving the radar and rocketry in the SA-5 surface-to-air missiles now located around Russia's western cities, could upgrade that anti-aircraft system into an instant ABM network. More important is the argument that an ABM-only agreement would squander a bargaining chip. That chip is the U.S.'s Safeguard ABM, now under construction at Air Force bases in North Dakota, Montana...
...also said that although he began his speech that night by saying "I am not here to warn you," his reference at the end of the speech to "the disciplinary action that will surely follow" was "a pretty clear indication" to the crowd that the Administration would punish disrupters of the "Counter Teach...
...Apparently term-paper hustling is an old racket [April 19}. My university students warn that one must always order a paper that will receive a grade commensurate with one's previous performance. Thus, deliberate Cs and Bs may be requested in preference to the interesting, fascinating, informative, original A. When I rebuke the practice, the reply is, "But the politicians' speeches are written for them, and look at all the books and articles that are ghosted...
...damn and blast my soul!" the Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown used to warn his grandson. "I will turn you straight out of my house if you go in for any kind of commercial life." But he added: "Beggar yourself rather than refuse assistance to anyone whose genius you think shows promise of being greater than your own." Ford Madox Hueffer, the old artist's grandson, was born into the Rossetti circle. After World War I he changed his Germanic last name to Ford. His achievements included the authorship of 81 books, as well as the more...