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...been missing for 20 years. Why? Before shipping him back to his order in Florida, the Company does its unsubtle best to pry the answer from the emaciated priest. Back home, Tunney attracts a lot of professional interest. There is a top KGB operative from Moscow, a sacerdotal snooper from the Vatican, a cold-blooded loner from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tides of War | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

...miniaturized radar-emission detector. Mounted on a dashboard, it flashes a light and then sounds a high-pitched beep when the vehicle approaches a radar trap. "This is the fastest-growing area of consumer electronics," says Cy Robinson of a Richardson, Texas, firm called Autotronics that sells "Snoopers" ($89.95) and "Super Snoopers" ($149.95). Super Snooper claims to be able to sniff out "over-the-hill and around-the-corner detection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Foiling the Fuzz | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

Heterosexual, homosexual, asexual or whatever-when will we learn it is not really relevant? Unlike Hoover, can we keep our noses out of other people's bedrooms? The only result of such snooping, finger pointing and sexual labeling is character assassination, alienation and damage done to snooper and snoopee alike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jan. 12, 1976 | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

...later because of an unrelated bit of skulduggery in October 1960. As TIME has reported, Giancana became upset because his girl friend, Singer Phyllis McGuire, took up in Las Vegas with Comedian Dan Rowan. It was arranged to have Rowan's hotel room bugged. Through ill chance, the snooper was caught in the act of planting his gear. The investigation progressed slowly, but eventually the Las Vegas police insisted on putting the evidence before the FBI, and Maheu informed Colonel Edwards that Giancana and Roselli expected to be protected. By May 1962 the FBI got in touch with Edwards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CIA: The Assassination Plot That Failed | 6/30/1975 | See Source »

Like most other entries, the winning cars had been fitted out with ultrabright driving lights, auxiliary fuel tanks, Scheel seats, heavy-duty shock absorbers, wide tires, Snooper units designed to pick up police radar and Citizen Band radio sets on which the drivers got warning of highway patrol cars ("Smokey Bears") from friendly truckers ahead. "The cops are really starting to get tricky," said Wes Dawn, 31, a professional racing driver from Los Angeles, who wheeled his Mercedes 4505L into the Portofino lot five minutes after the winner. "In Ohio the police all have C.B. radios in their cars-when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Cannonball Dash | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

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