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...have ever had." Thus the companies are turning out ever more exotic defensive gadgets. For example, to cut alarms without the breaks being noticed, crafty cracksmen now tie in simulators that duplicate the all-safe signal. In a counterattack, both Diebold and Mosler have developed alarm attachments that transmit random signals similar to computer code, which no simulator has yet been able to imitate. Cost...
...MAKING OF A SURGEON by William A. Nolen, M.D. 269 pages. Random House...
...plus ςa change, plus c'est . . . Assigned to report the changes in another service, Houston Correspondent Leo Janos visited Sheppard Air Force Base where General Jerry D. Page demonstrated the new informality by walking unannounced into a dormitory room picked at random. Inside, a single airman was sacked out on his bunk. "The airman opened one eye, then the other," says Janos. "He squinted sleepily and saw two stars, reporter with bolted pad and a host of brass hovering in the background. He bolted from bed as if ejected from a smoking jet. His feet never touched...
...served as a "trouble-shooter" for the Air Force during the flying saucer craze, is well-know as a debunker of reports that unidentified flying objects are actually spacecraft from another planet. He is the author of Astronomy, a popular survey of the field, published last month by Random House...
...Teddy Bear Book by Peter Bull. 207 pages. Random House. $10. The title was mercifully changed from Bear With Me. But Actor Bull's archly preserved chattiness is ubiquitous-and finally maddening. A pity, because the book (TIME, Dec. 5, 1969), originally published in Britain, is stuffed with sepia pictures of quaint and cuddly bears as well as a fair amount of interesting history. Sample: Everyone knows that a cartoon showing Teddy Roosevelt refusing to shoot a bear cub in 1902 led to the Teddy, but no one, not even Bull, can say whether the first bear was stuffed...