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Once a matter of shoving or fistfights, assaults today often result in bloodshed and even death. Last September an eighth-grader in Dade County's Westview Junior High died after a classmate smashed his face with a padlock during a lunchtime brawl. Just two weeks ago a 15-year-old boy was fatally stabbed in the chest at John Adams High School, in the Queens section of New York City, while his screaming girlfriend watched helplessly. On Dec. 5, a Los Angeles high school gang stabbed one victim and beat a second with a heavy belt buckle. Attacks against...
...weightiest cultural authorities in the Soviet Union. Diplomats, journalists, art experts and lovers of Soviet culture were all panting to attend. Yet when 200 invited guests turned up last week at Moscow's House of the Artist near the Kremlin, they found a 6-in. brass padlock on the door. Uniformed Soviet police turned back the crowd, while loudspeakers broadcast commands to clear the street...
...northwest gate looked a bit startled as Jones rolled in. But Jones had his congressional pass. He pedaled casually along the drive to the north portico, where Kings and Prime Ministers arrive in purring Rolls-Royces. He had decided beforehand that it was not necessary to bring his padlock. Jones glided right up to the steps. "Best parking place on the grounds," said the delighted cop. The Congressman flicked his kickstand in place, straightened his tie and went in to hear the most powerful man in the world talk about saving energy. Another Carter Administration first...
...almost every spare room. The corridors of a Fogg storage room are filled with old display cases, statuettes and a few works under consideration for acquisition, such as a Chinese stone tomb figure of the 10th century. Behind a huge, sliding metal door, guarded only by a small padlock, plastic-clothed Buddhas and glazed Chinese tomb figures occupy dusty shelves, a Japanese scroll with a painted vision of countless heavenly hordes hangs on one of the walls, and a shiny brass head that once served as the handle of a ritual Tibetan bell rests on a table...
...years ago, students were content to lock their bikes with the not-very-reliable combination of chain and padlock. But thefts mushroomed along with the ten-speed bicycle craze, and students began removing their front wheel when they parked, buying heavier and heavier chains, and eventually looking for totally new kinds of locks...