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...translates Russian at the Pentagon. Along with Dan, Joel, Gail, Becky and a dozen others, they are having a discussion about travel by freighter, the virtues of Europe's railroad pass and a little-known boat trip between Venice and Israel. Their conversation is, in short, the conventional chatter of the well-traveled. What is unconventional about the discussion is that Ann is in New York, Garry in California, Bob in Virginia and the others scattered along the East Coast. The international travelers' group of TeleSessions is holding its weekly talkathon-on the telephone...
...same kind of chatter, ranging from the highly practical to the merely cathartic, is occurring regularly at Stateside naval bases. At South Carolina's Charleston Naval Station, Captain Edward P. Flynn Jr. guides such meetings sympathetically but briskly. "My group doesn't like the way Playboy is displayed at the base exchange," complained Mary Vaughn of the Marine Wives' Club. "You can see as much in a women's magazine," countered Flynn. "I bought three T shirts last month at the Navy Exchange and there were holes in the seams of the shoulders," groused a submariner's wife. "Bring them...
...almost instantly spot errors, determine who has made them, and take steps to discipline or replace the wrongdoer. It constantly monitors the specially coded messages -or interoffice memos, as Avižienis calls them-that pass between the units, and immediately reacts to deviations from normal in the computer chatter. "It's as if a person were to start mispronouncing or slurring words," explains Avižienis. "Illness or intoxication would be immediately suspected...
...inefficiency. It may take 20 men to install one tap, often by breaking and entering the suspect's home, plus as many as six more men to monitor the tap, often for months and months in which they could be gathering solid evidence instead of recording mostly innocent chatter. Clark's Justice Department shunned bugging-but in 1968 somehow managed to indict 1,166 figures from organized crime, a record-breaking total for the decade...
...eleventh grade. In spite of Dennis Roth's set (including an imaginative ersatz stained glass window by Steve Baumgart), members of the cast constantly upstage one another, and company choreography is usually little more than spastically synchronized swaying. Tiny patches of the show are memorably wretched: unfunny anachronisms, offensive chatter about Harvard, a gratuitously swishy Wise Man, songs with three too many verses, and lines whose meter is often humanly impossible to navigate. Many of the supporting roles are weak, and some of the numbers are simply duds...