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...lady enters the Head of State's office to report that her foot has mischievously erased a portion of the tape, causing a hum...
...panel of electronics experts, which has been examining the presidential tape recording with its now celebrated 18-minute hum, will submit a report to Federal Judge John Sirica this week. It is expected to be "conclusive" and will pinpoint the cause of the mysterious sound. The report may also identify the specific tape machine in the White House on which the noise was recorded, although the experts cannot know or speculate on who may have been operating the machine at the time. The panel has already expressed doubts in its interim report (TIME, Dec. 24) that the conversation was wiped...
...sheepishly revealed another problem with the tapes: 18 minutes of a Nixon conversation with Chief of Staff Haldeman?the only part of the recording about Watergate?had been obliterated by a mysterious overriding hum. Again, Sirica ordered public hearings on this curious dwindling of the tapes evidence...
Sirica ruled that of the three tapes, Jaworski should receive only 1) part of a tape including the famous 18¼-minute hum that recorded a meeting between Nixon and former Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman on June 20, 1972; 2) five minutes of references to Watergate on a tape of Nixon's discussion on June 30, 1972, with former Attorney General John Mitchell about his resignation as chairman of the President's re-election committee; and 3) most of a tape of Nixon's conference with former Counsel John W. Dean on Sept...
...Westchester, N.Y., an eleven-year-old technical director announces: "You're on." The television camera begins to hum, and some ten-year-olds start their little-league Today Show: a closed-circuit broadcast to their schoolmates...