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2 Sections' Chicago Tribune, Wednesday, December 3, 1980 to the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, tests Britain talces great pride in making a jewel of a safe TOr yOU By Christine Winter, fife1! If 1 Pi John O'Brien By RITAIN'S HOUSE of Tau. it wi in the early 1700s, was famous for its iron-Iclad treasure chests, built to stymie the best of the wilv irate who oreved on ihiooina on there is a very real shortage of matn teacoers that most likely will get worse in the next two years. This is not be- cause you have to be a little peculiar to understand math well enough to teach it, as most of us fervently believed aa-ww suffered through sophomore geometry, but rather be-- cause mathematicians are getting more financial rewards la I industry than they can earn in the academic life. And they probably dent have to worry about anybody thinking they're weird out there, either. (Oh yes, difficult teaching conditions also were cited as a reason for the shortage.) Already, according to the survey, 25 per cent of the math teaching positions in the country are being held by teachers not perma- nently certified in the subject In search of fhe perfect product Every new product but si winner, and that's why major companies indulge in quite a bit of test marketing before -'they go to all the trouble and expense of taking their latest discovery nationwide.

According to Advertising Age, these goodies are beginning to hit the test market trail around the country: Soup Starter dry mix for 'homemade" soup has done so well that Swift is bringing out Stew Starter in the Detroit and Milwaukee areas. It contains vegetables, gravy mix, and seasonings: You add the meat Golden Brands is going to introduce Orelia, a French, carbonated citrus soft drink in San Francisco, while Hershey Food Corp. will test its "Cadillac" of candy bars, the Golden Almond Bar saturated with "large" almonds, in various areas. Kraft is giving its Sausage Maker a second go-round in Wichita and Little Rock. It is a package of condiment that is supposed to turn ground beef into sausage.

Meanwhile, Pillsbury Co. is trying out an eight-item line of frozen Mexican foods in Dallas and Portland, Including tostadas, enchiladas, nacbos, burritos, and taco pizza. If you're really a trendsetter, you'll probably want to pack up immediately and make the rounds in search of the newest fad product i All's fair To a little less than "half of the population, this may not seem like any big deal. To the rest, it could be one of the I biggest breakthroughs in equal treatment' to hit the retail world in decades. But first, let us set the stage.

You go into a fancy department store and buy an expensive pair of pants; but you are Just a little taller or a little shorter than the norm, or at least the fashion world's idea of the norm. and the hem needs to be slightly raised or lowered. Here's the rub. If you are a man, no problem; the tailor rushes out with his tape measure around his neck and his mouth full of pins, and that's that Your pants will be ready in a couple of days, sir. If you are a woman, that same service will cost you plenty, and maybe it isn't even available at the store where you bought your pants, even if it is the women's department of the same store where men are granted the luxury of free alterations.

At least that's the way it was. But no more. One small step for womankind has been taken by the Macy's department store chain, reports Student Lawyer: No more sex discrimination in the garment alterations policy. Women will be able to get their slacks altered without charge, the same as men have beea doing for years. Stranger than science fiction There If a possible solution for airline transportation pirob-; lems that not only would save fuel, but also would reduce airport congestion considerably, reports Science magazine.

-However, the plan sounds like it's straight out of Airport 1964. Huge airliners carrying 4,000 people would circle the country at a continuous height and speed, while passengers would be shuttled back and forth in specially designed auxiliary aircraft If you think this whole idea comes from a Flash Gordon comic book, you're wrong; it is the conclusion of a study conducted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and that august agency says the technology is available. The "aerial relay system" as it is called would consist of large airliners that would rarely land, and therefore, that could be built for the most efficient cruising possible. They wouldn't need heavy landing and takeoff equipment, and could carry a minimum of fuel, because they could be replenished by smaller feeder planes that would hook up to them. These planes, each large enough to handle about 800 passengers, would, in turn, be- specialized for takeoff, climbing, and landing, and would require little of the compromise necessary to achieve Ugh efficiency in cruising.

They would dock with the main airliners by flying into a bay in the rear. Passengers would be placed in individual seats hung from an overhead rack, and shifted to other parts of the liner by computer. NASA envisions a beginning system that would involve a circular route in which each liner would service 17 of the country's 22 major airports each 24 hours. Other areas would have to be served by connecting flights to those' airports on the system. It is estimated that the system could reduce total United States airline fuel consumption by as much as SS per cent and clear up some of the congestion in the nation's airports, many of which are carrying many times more traffic than they were designed to handle.

It all adds up to a shortage If you're good in math and, even more Important, good at 1 conveying its mysteries to others, your day Is coming. Ac- the high seas. In fact, after meeting one, Capt. Kidd or Jean Lafitte would wish he had walked the plank instead. The buccaneers and privateers eventually went out of business, but the House of Turn, which switched from treasure chests to safes in 1795, survived the years to become one of the most respected makers of iron-box safes in the world.

How good are they? A group of Chicago Jewelers and insurance executives sat slack-jawed as Tans (the firm's present name) positioned one of its models alongside a sturdy American safe and told two professional safecrackers to go to work. The 23 Jewelers and insurance experts, along with four top burglary detectives, watched for all of 1 ininute and 40 seconds at the two "yeggs" assaulted the American safe. THEN THE HIRED safecrackers, er "safe- openers" as they prefer to be known-Jerry Koch and Paul Doblas laid down their chisel, sledgehammer, and two crowbars and triumphantly stepped I aside. Their target, a type of safe commonly used by Jewelers to protect valuable metals and precious gems from theft, lay in shambles. Its once-secure doors of armor plating, reinforced with thick eon- -crete, swung open as if to say, "Clean me out." The two experts, looking as cool as if they'd Just stepped out of a deodorant ad, had made short work of the double-door records safe by punching off the combination dial with chisel and sledge, then using the sledge to drive back steel core connected to the tumblers.

They they pried open the doors with Staying in style Whimsical Is the word being used for the new novelty ties starting to pop up on the market for the spring, '81 season. According to Daily News Record, the new ties wont only be colorful, they are going to make a big point about their devotion to bright and beautiful hues. Al Beres, for example, is going to feature a line of ties for Balancine with an oversized, air-brushed crayon motif. Perhaps it would be the perfect thing to wear on nights when you want to color the town red, sienna, or cerulean? ue crowoars. "Actually, I've done the tame thing myself in less than a minute," said petite Patricia S.

Johnson of Chicago's McGunn Safe in whose warehouse the ATann Jewelers Treasury (TBT) safe 212 tons of defiance with a lead-fused combination shieldto prevent X-ray of the numbers 1 know of no Tann safe that has been defeated Chicago Mvsadty police LrV- 1 (jwr F0R THE sm MB QIJJ EASY Ml SHflfi T17IST HYLOfJ 7 sq. yd. test of metal demonstration took place. "You Americans have landed on the moon, and your computers are the best in the. world-yet the American safe industry is light years behind," said Britisher John Harwood, Tann's man in the "Cot onies" and who is vice president of Intercontinental Security Products, Inc.

(Intersec) in Miami, and sponsor of the tnvitatk-only demonstration the North Side warehouse. "Observe," he said. KOCH AND Doblas, who had reduced the American safe to scrap metal in less than two minutes, now tackled a Tann Jewelers Treasury (TBT) safe 3Vi tons of defiance with a lead-fused combination shield to prevent X-ray of the numbers and seven separate locking devices. By day's end they had gotten nowhere, except for making a small hole with burning bar, a polelike device using pure oxygen to fire a hole into metal "I am very impressed," said Cmdr. Kenneth' Curin of the Belmont Area detective unit "British-made safes are a thousand times better than our own." Burglary It Edward Wodnlcki said, "The demonstration was a good one.

I know of no Tana safe that has been defeated In Chicago. EVEN THE DIMPLE" bete the two burned in the side of the Tann safe lot them nowhere, because of the inner defense barrier installed wall-to-wall prised of aluminum and abractte nuggets. Further more, when Koch and Dobiaa went to work with the wicked 13-foot burning bar with its M.OOO-degrees Fahrenheit ferocity, the audience wu forced to retreat 80 feet to avoid the intense beat. "Every place where thieves have used a burning bar has caught fire," Curin said. History has shown, the detective commander said that underworld Chicago safecrackers prefer two methods: is, driving the con finking the safe's combination to the tumblers back Into the safe, then peeling off the door with chisel, sledge, and crowbar.

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The loot had been considered secure in three American safes, which were peeled, burned, and poached open. "OUR SALES HAVE dMed this year to saere than million, with September being a single-record month cf 50,000," said If cGuna's Johnson. The aales surge was credited la part to aewa of the Bruce break In, which Johnson said spread quickly through Jewelry and insurance circles. Ia fact, Brace now keeps Ha valuables fa a 117,101 Tana Mint-Vault, she said. The safecracking demonstration here, pitting aa American safe against the seemingly impregnable British Tann, was the first in the United States.

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