Word: eavesdropped
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Ever since they first learned how to eavesdrop, scientists have realized that porpoises are gabby creatures. They whistle, they beep, they squeak-they always seem to have something to say. But no one could be sure whether the whales' small cousins actually talk to each other, or whether they merely use their prattle for underwater navigation-a sort of mammalian sonar. Engineers from the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. have finally decided that they do both...
...versatility, machines lack a vital quality that even the lowliest mutt possesses: they cannot understand their master's voice. This situation may soon change. Last week International Business Machines Corp. demonstrated a small, innocent-looking gadget that may some day permit machines to follow spoken orders, and even eavesdrop on human conversations...
...next room. Slimmed to insect size by transistors and printed circuits, today's microphones can be tucked into a sofa or buried inches deep in walls or 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...
...produce a living art, instead of a passive acceptance of "great names," America must separate its high and middle cultures, MacDonald warned. "Let the majority eavesdrop if they wish," he said, "but their tastes in art should be ignored...
Subs & Ferrets. First step is to learn as much as possible about the enemy's equipment. This is done by submarines and "ferret" planes that eavesdrop on enemy radars and try to record the electronic voices of interceptors and guided missiles. Every shred of information is analyzed, including false information, and a fair idea of the enemy's electronics is built...