Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...codes needed to respond to a thermonuclear war in case Lyndon Johnson should die). Soviet Diplomat Alexander Alexandrov found his hotel room accidentally wired up to a U.S. communications center. Reporters covering the Vice President were crammed into a hastily scrubbed brothel armed with cans of bug repellent. But next morning Humphrey was cheerily wishing all comers a hearty New Year as his feet sank into melting tar and Liberia's tatterdemalion army of 4,500 men and girls shambled past in gala formation...
...talk at home. "We've reached a point where we are no longer the little second guy. We're big boys now," said William Bernbach, chairman of Doyle Dane Bernbach, which carries the over $6,000,000 Avis account. Now, D.D.B. has counted 47 bugs that plague car renters and pledged to do battle against them throughout 1968. The latest effort features such creatures as the flat-spare bug, the wobbly-mirror bug and the mirror-smearer bug-which "multiply like mad if left alone." In a really competitive business, explains Avis President Winston Morrow, service...
Last June the Supreme Court seemed to impose so many restrictions on electronic eavesdropping that it was impossible to bug constitutionally. Last week the court ruled that eavesdropping was constitutional after all-within certain narrowly defined limits. In a refreshingly clean and straightforward opinion, Justice Potter Stewart knocked down a few outdated concepts and set out the court's new guidelines for permissible bugging...
Without Warrant. The case in point concerned a small-time Los Angeles gambler, Charles Katz, whose calls from a public phone booth had been bugged by the FBI without a warrant and with a device that had been taped to the top of the booth to avoid the trespass disability. Stewart conceded for the sake of argument that the FBI agents did not bug until they had good reason to believe that Katz was using the phone to violate federal law; then they were careful to listen only to Katz and to stop as soon as they had collected what...
Many of the surveillance devices are in extremely wide use. Businesses spy on assembly-line workers and executives alike. Colleges listen in on dormitory rooms. Blackmail-minded brothel owners look in on their customers. Police hunt homosexuals with ceiling cameras installed in men's rest rooms. Cops also bug hoods, while hoods bug cops. Some towns have experimented with closed-circuit TV cameras on the streets; using street lights, police can watch at night for crimes. District attorneys have been known to record lawyer-defendant conferences, and everyone believes that everyone's wiretapping everyone else in Washington...