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...Executive Office Building were also bugged for general conversations among persons on the premises. Alexander Butterfield told the Ervin committee that the bugs were voiceactivated, a term which means that a tape starts running as soon as someone speaks. But TIME has learned that his testimony was incorrect. Voice-activated recording (VOX in the jargon of the snooper's trade) has one major drawback: a slight time lag between the beginning of conversation and the start of recording. As part of the quest for simple, sure fidelity, Nixon's mikes were activated whenever he entered...
Magruder conceded that he is now aware that this thinking "is absolutely incorrect; two wrongs do not make a right. I fully accept the responsibility of having made an absolutely disastrous decision, or at least having participated in it." Commented Baker: "A decision really that is going to affect history that was made in almost a casual way." Magruder...
...English this year, one student's thesis was graded summa minus by a graduate student and no distinction by a Faculty member. The professor awarded no distinction because of what he considered an incorrect citation. After the graduate student was told of the possible error, the sources said, she changed her grade to no distinction, thus removing any hope that an honors grade might be salvaged...
Originally, the incorrect citation was considered to be an example of plagarism, but the Administrative Board ruled that plagarism was not involved. Reportedly, the Faculty member objected to the student's use of paraphase, which he said was too similar to the original, even though the student had cited accurately the source and the page number...
...speak. Government officials are entitled to make flat statements one day, and the next day reverse field with the simple phrase, "I misspoke myself." White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler enlarged the vocabulary last week, declaring that all of Nixon's previous statements on Watergate were "inoperative." Not incorrect, not misinformed, not untrue-simply inoperative, like batteries gone dead. Euphemisms notwithstanding, the Nixon Administration's verbal record on Watergate is enough to turn ardent believers into skeptics. Some examples of "inoperative" statements from Administration officials who misspoke themselves...