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Obviously, no professional thief in his right mind would try to steal any of those gems. They would take for granted that burglar alarms are stretched like invisible fish nets across the room, that sharp-eyed guards march hither and yon on everlasting alert, and that at the very least the windows are locked...
...South Dakota's Republican Karl Mundt, himself a notable rough-and-tumble campaigner and a strong Barry Goldwater partisan, rose in the Senate last week to decry its "low-level, schoolyard" tactics. Complained Mundt: "What kind of madness is upon us? Ignoramus, crook, warmonger, demagogue, trigger-happy, vote-thief - these are some of the terms we hear booted about by candidates for President of the greatest country in the world." But there is still time, he said, "to restore some degree of dignity and decency." The Essentials. So far neither candidate has shown much inclination to ward that...
...Metal Insert. The answer to the librarians' plight may lie in an electronic device demonstrated last week in Flint, Mich. Playing the part of a thief, a Flint librarian slipped a library book under his coat, then walked boldly to the exit. There was a loud click as the turnstile locked, then a buzzing noise as the librarian was alerted. Even as the "thief" sheepishly explained that he "forgot" to sign out his book, a patron whose book had been properly checked out strode easily through the same turnstile...
...works on the ancient principle of magnetism. A sliver of magnetized metal is hidden somewhere in a book's spine or binding, and the librarian who checks the book out simply demagnetizes the metal insert by passing the book through a coil carrying an electric current. If a thief bolts for the exit instead of the check-out desk, the magnetized metal inside his book is detected by an instrument that trips a solenoid hidden at the door; the turnstile is automatically locked and the librarian alerted. A sign over the door explains all with a succinct message...
...Great Deterrent. Trikilis' system is not a perfect burglar finder, and it cannot foil the determined thief who tosses a stolen book out a window. But drawbacks are few, and along with a similar setup made by Bro-Dart Industries of Newark, N.J., the Sentronic sentry is being studied by libraries across the U.S., from the Harvard University Medical School library to San Quentin prison library...