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Technical experts consulted by TIME (see box following page) contend that the described sound could only occur while the White House equipment was set to record, not to playback. But if the sound was present on the original recording, it presumably would have been detected by any of a number of White House officials who have heard some of the tapes. They include the President, Miss Woods, Haldeman, Presidential Aide Stephen Bull and former Presidential Aide Alexander Butterfield. According to Buzhardt, the discovery was made only on Nov. 14, when he and another White House counsel, Samuel Powers, were cataloguing...
Moreover, TIME has learned that Steve Bull, a presidential aide, has told Ervin committee investigators that he delivered eight or ten tapes of Watergate conversations to the President on June 4. Bull loaded the tapes onto at least five playback machines. He said that he carried the machines into the President's office in the Executive Office Building, set them up for the President and then left. According to Bull, Nixon kept the tapes for twelve hours, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and when Bull retrieved them all of the tapes had been fully unwound. The significance...
...programs developed by the software interests were patented and thus made less readily available to computer users. To software producers, including hundreds of small computer programming companies as well as large manufacturers like AT&T that have developed their own software, the court's ruling was a disappointing playback. Says John Bennett, president of Associated Data Research of Princeton, N.J., "I could invest $1,000,000 to develop a new program, and be unable to prevent another company from selling...
...showing it to a steady stream of lookers, many of whom conclude at the first glance that they have no interest. Now Victor Klein, a real estate broker in Westport, Conn., has an idea that could eliminate most of the bother. Using an inexpensive Sony TV camera and playback unit that is simple to operate, he puts on video tape the interior and outdoor views of the houses that clients want to sell and shows the tapes to prospective buyers on his office TV set. After looking at the houses on TV, the buyer can then select for personal inspection...
...novels reveals an uncomfortable truth. The Little Sister is vintage Chandler. The plot is ingenious and preposterously complicated. Detective Philip Marlowe is full of tough backchat ("Cracking wise," he would call it). In The Long Goodbye, the paranoia and self-pity that engulfed Chandler in his last long work, Playback, are already in evidence, and the prose and characterization are flaccid. Still, this is a rich enough sampling to send any true fan back to the Cs for the other five novels...