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State authorities are pleased with the performance of the boxes, which require little maintenance and are virtually vandal proof. Also, says John Mann of the Illinois Department of Transportation, "the call boxes get help without a lot of talking." This is particularly important because motorists in trouble are often nervous and disconcerted and may give a wrong location when phoning for help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Highway Helpers | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

...finally gotten around to spending its $162,000 Roosevelt Towers appropriation. "Vandal-proof" lights have been installed on the first floor of the tower building, and CHA plans to put similar lights in the courtyard. Eventually, kitchens will be redone, and some of the buildings re-roofed...

Author: By Lewis Clayton, | Title: Roosevelt Towers | 10/19/1973 | See Source »

Charles L. Coulson, manager of the Faculty Club, said that the vault was left unlocked by an inexperienced clerk. Although the Club is closed during the weekend, employees and guests go in and out of the premises. Coulson said that the possibility of a thief or vandal entering the premises was very high...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union, Faculty Club Robbed; Crime Increases During Break | 4/11/1973 | See Source »

...ever seriously suggested that a 20th century counterpart of Tom, Quarterback Joe Willie Namath, should suffer such a fate. But he has always been the same kind of rococo rascal that Jones was. As a child Joe Willie was, by his own cheerful confession, an occasional thief and vandal. In his youth he ignored his studies for the pursuit of pigskin and other cutaneous diversions. In setting a career for himself as a professional quarterback, Joe snubbed the St. Louis Cardinals of the older National Football League in favor of the New York Jets of the lowly American Football League...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joe Namath and the Jet-Propelled Offense | 10/16/1972 | See Source »

...this play means, but relatively easy to tell you how to write it. Rip out pages from lonesco, Pinter, Beckett, Kafka, the Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein and Alice in Wonderland. Tear these into tiny fragments and scatter them on the stage. Austrian Playwright Peter Handke, 29, is a derivative word-vandal. He is currently quite the vogue in Europe, which suggests that the decline of the West is progressing more rapidly than Spengler envisioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Spengler Redux | 1/24/1972 | See Source »

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