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...floor. With battery-powered transmitters no bigger than a cigarette pack, the new gadgets need no outside power source and can eavesdrop for two whole years without attention. In one East European capital, a foreign service officer first learned that his living room was bugged when a U.S. embassy clerk telephoned to report verbatim what he had been saying -two miles away. The clerk had accidentally picked up the bug's transmissions on his short-wave radio...
...letters cover his youth as a journeyman printer in New Orleans with his brother Jeff, his tour of duty in Washington as clerk in the Treasury and the Indian Bureau of the Interior Department and his stint as a volunteer male nurse in the gruesome military hospitals of the Civil War. Leaving his clerk's desk in the afternoon, "Loving Old Walt" (as he liked to sign himself) checked in at one of the huge whitewashed dressing stations near the capital. It is easy to raise a coarse snigger at the ambiguity of Whitman's motives for playing...
...body of Marta Santa Cruz, 22, was discovered by two teenagers. Marta had apparently been raped, then strangled. Her hands and feet were bound, and flesh scrapings found under her fingernails indicated a desperate struggle with her attacker. Daughter of a retired Bolivian army colonel. Marta worked as a clerk-typist at the Washington, D.C. Hospital Center, was a frequent guest at parties given by Bolivia's Ambassador Victor Andrade. ¶ In North Buffalo. N.Y.. frightened parents confiscated their children's bikes, Bible-class attendance dwindled, and one cautious housewife locked all three doors to her house...
...union to the Disciples of Christ, which would make a denomination of some 4,000,000 members in 14,000 congregations. Back at once came a favorable reply suggesting that merger conferences begin in September. The delegates also voted to "respond affirmatively" to the proposal of Presbyterian Stated Clerk Eugene Carson Blake for a merger of Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Methodists and the United Church of Christ (TIME cover, May 26). Said pleased President Herbster: "We promised in the beginning to be not only a united church but a uniting church...
Born. To Edmund Sixtus Muskie, 47, Maine's first popularly elected Democratic U.S. Senator and previously its first Catholic Governor, and Jane Frances Gray Muskie, 34, Republican-bred former Down East dress-shop clerk: their fifth child, second son; in Washington...