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Last week the Federal Communications Commission moved part way to plug the bug. An FCC order banning private use of radio devices to intercept private conversations-with a maximum fine of $500 a day for convicted snoopers-applies to scores of bugging techniques. Not affected is eavesdropping apparatus that does not use radio, such as a microphone connected by wire to a hidden listening post, or a disguised tape recorder. Law-enforcement agencies are exempt from the ban though still subject to local laws and regulations...
This morning is your very last chance to knife, to eulogize, to blast, to reflect--to put in your two cents or plug nickels about Harvard edit cation in the Fall of 1965. Polls will be collected today...
...estimated 25 million Americans who suffer from coronary artery disease, fewer than 10 million have their problem neatly confined to a plug of fatty or chalky material in a single artery -what doctors call "segmental disease." The majority have a diffuse disease involving several artery branches, vastly complicating all efforts to boost blood flow to the oxygen-starved heart muscle. Because there is as yet no proof that medical treatment with diet, drugs, exercise and control of weight and blood pressure does much good, Santa Monica's Dr. James A. Mc-Eachen told the American College of Cardiology, countless...
...Fitzsimmons couldn't plug the dike forever, and he didn't have a chance on the five goals the Terriers poured in in the second period...
There are assuredly more quizzes in store for the test-happy and testy alike. One possibility: The National TV Repair Test. Question: "Your TV set keeps asking you questions. What can be done about it?" Answer: Pull the plug...