Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...model T.T., the Spider and the Prinz 4, a little bug below Volkswagen price and power level, have a mere 3.2% share of the domestic market and 6.4% of German exports. In the first seven months of 1967, NSU car sales dropped 27% from the same period last year. Volkswagen too was feeling the pinch: in July both Opel (G.M.) and Taunus (Ford) outsold the Beetle in Germany. That NSU has survived the crush of the giants at all is a triumph. Its sales grew from $10 million in 1958 to $120 million last year, and almost all profits were...
...support for the U.N. rose sharply: from 50% of the people in 1953, according to one poll, to 74% in 1955. Lodge was a master dramatist. After the U-2 flap in 1960, for example, he memorably countered holier-than-thou Soviet rhetoric by revealing that the Russians had bugged the U.S. embassy in Moscow-and displaying the Great Seal that had contained the bug...
Chemical firms have developed more powerful bug-killers, but the newer poisons take out everything in sight, including Boston's lovely butterflies and bluebirds...
...Williams discovered the insecticide two years ago in the pulp of American newspapers and paper toweling. It stops the bug from reaching maturity and kills louse eggs before they can hatch...
Under Ramsey Clark's guidelines, all federal agencies and departments-including military intelligence units-must get permission to bug from the Attorney General. And, said an aide, he is not likely to be "terribly permissive." Except in national-security cases, or with the consent of one of the parties, the memorandum forbids tapping of telephones or electronic probes that involve physically trespassing into a closed room. Left unclear by the memorandum's cautious wording was whether such sophisticated bugs as the "detectaphone," which can hear through walls, may be used by federal agents. The memorandum merely observes that...