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Much of the testimony came from private investigators and equipment manufacturers, who were reluctant to be too specific about their clientele. Nonetheless, in closed-door testimony, the committee learned that some companies employ the devices to listen in on what their employees are saying in rest rooms, company dining rooms and elsewhere in the plant. In Los Angeles some used-car dealers bug rooms where prospective car purchasers are left with their wives; thus the salesman can pick up tips for a new pitch by listening to the family discussion of who likes what and how much the family budget...
...metropolitan France by appointing a grandiosely designated Committee to Safeguard Individual Rights and Liberties. A week earlier another committee, appointed by the Radical Socialist Party for a similar purpose, had thought better of going to Algeria when Minister Resident Robert Lacoste warned that he would be forced to employ thousands of police to protect them from the French colons...
...long ago a parade of witnesses before a Congressional investigating committee were using the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering questions about their past Communist activities. Afterwards a number of those witnesses suffered a loss in public esteem. In a few cases they suffered concrete injury because their former employers didn't want to employ them any longer. At this there were loud outcries from a number of people who consider themselves "liberals." They complained that the investigating committee had done a dastardly thing simply by asking the questions...
Grades at Bennington are kept only for graduate school references, without even the cryptic sort of communication to students Reed may employ. Written reports and weekly meetings with a counselor tell students of their progress...
...primer on the new tongue in the current Holiday, Fadiman classifies the M.C.s of the top quiz and interview shows as the Noah Websters and Fowlers of the age. Writes he: "They employ certain mandatory words and phrases, now becoming part of our general vocabulary: but seriously to indicate that what follows is to be duller than what has preceded; definitely for yes; great or wunnerful to express mild approval, or often merely to show that the M.C. has heard and noted a statement by the interviewee; he's so right; I've got news for yuh; that...