Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tone had got on the tape. He said Government technicians had been told about it, had listened to it, and could not account for it either. He had even allowed one of the prosecutors, Carl Feldbaum, to hear the affected portion. Feldbaum described the noise as a "medium-high hum...
...tapping operations for a federal agency. Familiar with the White House recording equipment, he told TIME that the tone could not have been accidentally picked up on the tape while it was being played back for listening or transcribing. Nor, he said, is it likely that the tone, or hum, was recorded during the original taping, since it did not blanket all of the conversation. For a partial malfunction, a plug, or electrical connection, would have to cut out accidentally and just as accidentally resume normal operation after an 18-minute lapse...
That is certainly possible, but this expert found it hard to believe. Rather, he suggested, the hum sounds like "what happens frequently when amateurs try to tinker with a tape." The most likely circumstance, he contended, is that "the hum was recorded when someone attempted to record over the original conversation or tried to erase it." While that was under way, the hum could have been picked up from nearby cords carrying alternating current, such as those to a desk lamp, according to this expert...
Today's meeting of Harvard and Brown--in the unforgettable, dreary (sometimes), cold and windy Providence, R.I.--will be a little different than that ho-hum afternoon in September. Brown has done some phenomenal things this year--for Brown that is--and the Bruins are itching to do some more...
...Director: Marcel Ophuls, a documentary by Paul Michaud, Hum sectionman and head of Les Films Sirene...