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...possibility of having accidentally erased "four to five minutes" of the tape by mistakenly pressing the "record" button, evidently while keeping her foot on the pedal that advanced the tape. Presidential Chief Counsel J. Fred Buzhardt buttressed the theory, testifying that he had re-created a loud hum on the erased tape by using Miss Woods' electric typewriter, high-intensity lamp and Uher 5000 tape recorder...
Last week, however, the six-man panel of electronics and acoustical experts scuttled the White House theory. After studying the tapes for 13 days, they told Federal Judge John J. Sirica in a preliminary report that neither the lamp nor the typewriter was "a likely cause" of the hum...
...several sources" in the Administration had discussed the theory that Miss Woods could have acciden tally pressed the fast rewind pedal, which would erase the 18-minute seg ment in a few seconds. But that oper ation would have left a high-pitched whine on the tape, not the hum that is present, and would have required Miss Woods to have played the segment -as she testified she did not -before rewind ing and erasing...
Guarded by three federal marshals, they worked for two days in the laboratories of the Federal Scientific Corp. in New York City, trying to determine the source of the hum. Then they returned the tape to Sirica, who kept it locked up and closely guarded...
...papers this week on the White House role in the milk-support controversy and the President's involvement in the ITT antitrust case. Undoubtedly, Nixon also will have more to say about the tapes, but not until Sirica decides what to do about the case of the mysterious hum...