Word: bulletproofing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Fringe Benefit. Real security, most drivers agree, will come only when all cabs are equipped with immovable, bulletproof screens between driver and passengers (payment would be made via a tray that would slide between cabby and passenger), as well as driver control over back-seat door locks. New York's experience with the slide-open screen has not been too successful. "On a hot summer night," says a police spokesman, "what's a cabby supposed to do-drive with his window shut...
...demanding McLucas' complete exoneration. Overall, however, there was an atmosphere of good feeling that had hardly been evident at the trial's outset. Beginning with the May Day demonstrations in New Haven that almost erupted in bloody rioting, city and court officials were nervous about potential violence. Bulletproof windows were installed in Judge Mulvey's courtroom, and protesters were banned from demonstrating on the courthouse steps. Marshals frisked those attending the trial...
When Adolf Eichmann was tried in Jerusalem nine years ago, he sat inside a bulletproof glass booth. The idea was to protect him from a possible assassin in the courtroom-and it inspired Actor Robert Shaw to write a successful play called The Man in the Glass Booth. Now American jurists are considering a similar booth, made of plastic. Here, however, the idea is to protect the court from the defendant...