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Eric (Harvard '66) is married and has a three-month old child. He knew Tim as an undergraduate, and since that time has worked for WGBH as a cameraman-soundman. They first worked together on 3 sisters, and Tim had insisted to the station management that Eric do sound and lighting on the new film...
...heckling for the most part was deliberately disruptive. Humphrey tried to ignore his tormentors, then to outtalk them, with uneven success. Nixon developed elaborate techniques to thwart hecklers. At indoor rallies, his aides often refused to admit unkempt students or others who looked like troublemakers. If shouting started, a soundman turned up the p.a. system to earsplitting level. Bevies of Nixon-aires, mostly off-duty airline stewardesses, did their best to drown out the dissidents with chants of "We want Nixon!" Republicans also hired beefy ex-footballers to mingle with outdoor crowds. They stood next to protesters and told them...
...took an hour to do six people, because the girl from Massachusetts had trouble with "I'm from Alabama," and because Angus, the soundman, couldn't figure how to rig the low-cut dresses with the microphone...
...homespun talk on the high cost of living, ending with Nancy arriving to reclaim the forgotten groceries ("You were a big help, Guv!"), bantered farm problems over the back fence with Estes Kefauver, cavorted about a well-clipped lawn with his dog Muldoon (who chewed the lapel off a soundman's jacket). Said Film-Maker Herschell Lewis: "The attempt is to make the viewer realize that Stevenson is actually like the guy next door...
...Navy began to doubt Higbee's claim. Soballe was ordered back to the area next morning. He found an oil slick spread across the water-hydraulic oil of a kind used exclusively on submarines. That was not enough. The Navy knew how easy it was for an overeager soundman to "hear" torpedo sounds and hull echoes on a lonely watch. False contact, declared the brass, and closed the incident...