Word: playbacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mishmash of singing, dancing and bare fisticuffs, all revolving around impossible plots in which babies get swapped by villainous doubles and village belles with painted fingernails run off with rich landowners, who leave wives of unimaginable fortitude behind them. Into this unlikely mix go dubbed songs by so-called "playback singers," who become stars in their own right. Says Manohar Lai Bharadwaj, manager of Asha Film Distributors: "We never distribute movies with social themes because they have been total failures...
Philips-MCA has taken a different approach. Its aluminum-coated, plastic record, stamped from a master disc that has been etched by a laser beam, is covered with billions of microscopic pits. Variations in pit size encode the video and sound messages. For playback, a sharply focused beam from a low-power (one-thousandth of a watt) helium-neon laser scans the disc as it whirls around at 1,800 r.p.m. The laser beam flickers as it is reflected from the record's pocked surface, and the flickering is detected by a photosensitive cell, like that used in photographic...
...given to it by Special Prosecutor Jaworski. When comparing them with the White House documents, they found that the Administration's transcribers had dropped out certain words and identified as "unintelligible" some segments that the committee staff found intelligible. Doar blamed other differences on the White House's inferior playback equipment and inattention by the people who operated it. Jaworski's staff found similar discrepancies between tapes and transcripts...
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...