Word: lasered
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Even that is not completely safe, because laser beams can pick up a conversation 100 yds. away. With miniature, transistorized equipment, even trees and flower beds have on occasion been bugged, along with practically everything else-bedsprings, toilet bowls, belt buckles. Americans believe that the microphones in their living quarters are turned on only when they receive important visitors, but they cannot be sure. Says one diplomat: "A man and his wife can't even have an argument unless they are willing to let the Russians...
...home or office. What next? At their yellow brick headquarters, which sprawls like a Pentagon of science over the wooded hills of Murray Hill, N.J., Bell's crew-cut mathematicians, physicists and chemists-many of them not yet 30-are working on pocket phones, wristwatch phones, and laser beams that someday will replace wires and microwaves as carriers of the spoken word. A Basic Difference. Looking toward his own tomorrow, Fred Kappel knows that A.T.&T.'s inflexible retireby-65 rule will compel him to step down within three years. He also knows that though personnel and products...
Obviously, the signal demanded an answer, and the thoughtful Cygnians labored mightily over their reply. They hoped that earthmen would understand it, since they were sending it back by laser beam. But they were wrong...
Even worse, the Cygnians' laser-beamed response packed far too powerful a punch. When it hit the earth's atmosphere, high above central Siberia, its tremendous energy became a tremendous bomb. It blasted a group of craters 15 miles across and knocked men flat more than 30 miles away...
Serious Soviet scientists are hardly likely to endorse the laser-beam-from-Cygni theory, but they are not likely to denounce it either. If they took the trouble to knock down every wild theory that poses as science in the Soviet press, they would have little time for research...