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...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 one of the bugged rooms. Strategically placed locator boxes, showing seven locations in all, indicated the President's whereabouts...
...19th season, has gone to the plate 2,700 more times than Ruth and is hitting a livelier ball. Aaron's supporters counter with the argument that Ruth never had to cope with the hitting problems created by such modern phenomena as night games and jet lag...
...clear until the middle of last week whether he would land on Saturday or Sunday. By choosing the earlier day, Brezhnev allowed himself the luxury of being flown by helicopter to the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md., to rest up from jet lag...
Several spokesmen in the Radcliffe Fund office said yesterday that the current drive is lagging decidedly behind last year's in student participation, but did not blame the lag on ambivalence toward Radcliffe's present status...
American plane builders are hardly going out of business. Indeed, one reason for their lag in building the aircraft of the future seems to be their success in marketing the planes of the present. The three American wide-bodied jets -Boeing's 747, McDonnell Douglas' DC-10 and Lockheed's L-1011-are selling so fast that they are providing airlines with more seats than can be filled. Thus the U.S. companies see no market for new planes any time soon, and they have not pushed development of the advanced designs that they do have. Boeing...