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...peepholes in the doors of all undergraduate rooms; adding and replacing locks and lighting throughout the University; locking the entryways to several of the River Houses; an experimental electronic security door to Eliot House which can only be opened with a special coded magnetic card; an increased student watchman force; and a campaign to increase student and administration awareness and cooperation in reporting crimes and suspicious happenings...
There is obviously more to come about the Watergate affair and more the President himself will have to do, including eventually a fuller and franker account of his own discussions and decisions from the beginning. Meanwhile, we are all much indebted to a privately employed night watchman who was on his toes; three District of Columbia policemen who reacted very fast; a posse of persistent journalists; the courageous judge, John Sirica, who reminds us what an independent judiciary means; the looming figure of Senator Sam Ervin, whose impending hearings surely helped loosen various tongues. In short, the American democratic "system...
...guards, who are paid an average $50 per month-not a salary likely to attract qualified men capable of thwarting organized robbers like the trio who, in 1968, broke into the Izmir Fair Archaeological Museum, rifled its collection of antique Aegean jewelry, vases and marble carvings, and crushed the watchman's skull with a stolen statue as they departed...
Lawton also listed the watchman service -- initiated by Stephen s. J. Hall, vice-president for Administration -- and improved lighting on streets around the houses as recent safety measures funded by the Faculty...
Like many others, the Children's Zoo in Des Moines has had a serious vandalism problem. There is no money to hire a night watchman, and trespassers have broken in to cut off a cougar's ear, steal a trained hawk and release penned deer. Director Robert Elgin finally worked out an ingenious way to police the grounds at no cost: let Becky do it. Becky is a 180-lb. lioness...