Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, as the committee readied a final report from hundreds of pages of testimony, the difficulty of its task was doubly clear. While in conference with 104 of Britain's top prison officials at the Civil Defense Staff College in Berkshire, an unexpected phone call came for Governor Peter Jones of Dartmoor prison. As his colleagues stood by with mouths agape, Jones heard the news that his toughest criminal, the so-called "mad axman of Broadmoor," was at that very moment legging it for freedom. Frank Mitchell, 37, a jail bully who once attacked an elderly couple with...
...thing, she was always too homesick and broke. About two-thirds of her $400 weekly salary went to taxes, to her manager and to her family (John, two half brothers, a half sister, as well as her mother and stepfather). Much of what she had left she spent on phone calls back to Britain. Her half brother Donald still tells how he used to kick the family Welsh corgi, Humpty, to make him bark a transatlantic hello...
Glissando Lecture. Indeed, Arnstein takes such proprietary interest in his scores that he refers to them as "our music," frequently advises the composers on how to simplify complex rhythms and smooth awkward transitions. They are accustomed to Arnie's wee-hour phone calls (he knows all their working habits) and the familiar question, "Do you really mean this?" In the case of obvious irregularities, many composers trust him so implicitly that they tell him to do the patchwork. In one instance, when Arnstein was confronted with a low F for the violins-it just does not exist on that...
...infinity transmitter." No bigger than a pair of back-to-back matchbooks, the transmitter can be quickly hidden inside the base of any telephone. Once installed, it can be monitored from thousands of miles away. The properly equipped eavesdropper need only dial the number of the bugged phone from any direct-dialing phone anywhere in the world, and stand ready to send a single-frequency tone down the line before the distant phone rings. That tone, created by blowing a pretuned whistle into the phone's mouthpiece, not only turns on the transmitter, it also prevents the bugged phone...
Other incoming callers, trying to reach the bugged phone, receive a busy signal. And because it is making no radio-frequency transmission, the infinity transmitter can be detected only by physical search, not by an anti-bugger...