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...bigger than a pack of cigarettes, the arsonists' bombs are expertly fashioned from a minuscule penlight battery, a wristwatch, a flashlight bulb and incendiary chemicals (potassium chlorate and potassium permanganate) that can be bought at local drug stores. Often tucked under a pile of fabrics in a crowded store, the minibombs are timed to flare after closing hour. In one day, four fires did $810,000 worth of damage to stores owned by U.S. merchants; unexploded devices have been found in the bathroom of a girls' school and, two weeks ago, at a U.S. Selective Service office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Puerto Rico: Burn, Yanqui, Burn! | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

...woman's wristwatch puts the time at 7:30. In the next photo, the pair's positions are reversed and the man's watch reads 7:45. Underneath is the caption: "Forget the time. Your Universal Geneve will take care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: Frankly After the Francs | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

Three youths mugged a Nieman Fellow who was returning to his home on Harvard Street late Thursday night, and made off with his wallet and wristwatch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Local Toughs Beat Nieman Fellow | 4/22/1968 | See Source »

...outlet for fine English leather goods, moved to Manhattan to cater to the well-to-do. Though leather has always been the main line, over the years Mark Cross introduced to New York such novelties from the Old World as the Thermos bottle and, during World War I, the wristwatch, which it was first to sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailing: Luxuries Going West | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

...devices that will use microscopically small integrated circuits and transmit sound on light beams. "The beauty of this business," says Jamil, "is that if you can imagine a device, it can probably be built." As if to prove his point last week, he put on sale a "Dick Tracy" wristwatch transmitter that can keep a private eye or a government agent in contact with an accomplice 200 ft. away. The transmitter is so sensitive that it even broadcasts the ticks of a built-in watch that actually tells time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Everybody's Got the Bug | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

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