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...conversations among persons on the premises. Alexander Butterfield told the Ervin committee that the bugs were voiceactivated, a term which means that a tape starts running as soon as someone speaks. But TIME has learned that his testimony was incorrect. Voice-activated recording (VOX in the jargon of the snooper's trade) has one major drawback: a slight time lag between the beginning of conversation and the start of recording. As part of the quest for simple, sure fidelity, Nixon's mikes were activated whenever he entered one of the bugged rooms. Strategically placed locator boxes, showing seven...
...unworldly New World girls, starting with Daisy Miller, who have pitted their innocence against Old World ambiguities of Europe and pluckily gone under. In her own words, Shirley is "warm, generous, brave even." She is also sloppy, tactless, catty, softhearted, scatterbrained, a compulsive quoter out of context and snooper in her husband's desk drawers, gigantically absentminded, passably promiscuous, desperately lonely, guilt-ridden, polyglot, and sympathetically drawn to other people's troubles. She does the wrong thing every chance she gets, and St. Joseph (her code word for fate) never fails to give her another chance. Yet, unlike...
...individual income tax returns, and the precedent goes back to 1910. It can be argued, of course, that many officials have good reason to seek such specific information for tax and criminal prosecutions. What angered O'Brien and Caplin was the notion that Mollenhoff, Nixon's political snooper, should enjoy the privilege in pursuit of partisan ends. Nixon and the IRS had the last word, however. Last week, the IRS produced a 1961 memo extending similar privileges to Carmine Bellino, the man who served J.F.K. in the same capacity as Mollenhoff serves Nixon. The authorization signature read Mortimer...
...Soviet Snooper. While their guests enjoyed pleasure-cruise comforts, Captain Roger A. Steward and his crew faced an uncharted sea. At times, their ship sliced easily through the ice, throwing up chunks the size of a bus. But often the Manhattan, which purposely plowed into massive ice floes to test its reinforced steel hull and battering bow, had to call for help from its Canadian icebreaker escort...
...military machine in South Viet Nam is technically more efficient than ever before. Improved gathering of physical intelligence by sensor devices, long-range reconnaissance patrols, helicopter cavalry squadrons and snooper aircraft may well have headed off the Communists' plans for late August attacks. New emphasis on night patrolling and staking out ambushes has broken the Viet Cong's mastery of the night in parts of South Viet...