Word: switched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...score would then switch to J. Edgar Hoover describing the complex rationale behind his efforts to get King's nighttime activities on film. As Hoover wrote in a confidential FBI memo when King won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. "King could well qualify for the 'top alley cat' prize. "Of course, Hoover was not concerned only with the sexual practices of King to whom he referred consistently in internal FBI memos as "that moral degenerate." As was revealed shortly after Hoover's death, one of the chief's greatest pet projects was using FBI agents to closely monitor...
...indicating that the insulin might have been manufactured in Sunny's body after her admission. But on the stand the technicians said they had been "confused" by defense questions in the pretrial testimony, and insisted that the tests actually had been made and labeled in unambiguous order. The switch in testimony visibly dismayed Defense Attorney Herald Price Fahringer...
According to an informal newspaper poll, 85% of the region's 98,000 residents may favor an official switch of allegiance. They feel their chunk of Nebraska is misunderstood or ignored by the government in the state's capital back east in Lincoln. The rawboned ranching life in the panhandle, they argue, is kindred to the wild West of Wyoming...
Kennedy and Nixon were by no means the only Presidents to preserve conversations. Lyndon Johnson could reach under a table in the Cabinet Room and throw a switch among the buttons marked COFFEE, TEA and FRESCA to turn his recorders on and off. So far, only a few transcripts have been made public. Harry Truman is known to have made about ten recordings, and it was revealed only last month that Franklin D. Roosevelt used a mike in his office desk lamp to record at least 14 press conferences and a few other conversations. Eisenhower is known to have taped...
...entrepreneurial activity are found along the Boston beltways of routes 128 and 495, at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, and to the north and west of Dallas. Several former employees of Dallas-based Texas Instruments have set up their own companies specializing in communications, including Digital Switch Corp., Intecom and Danray. Gordon Matthews, 45, worked for IBM and Texas Instruments before starting companies of his own. His third and latest venture is ECS Telecommunications, which sells a computerized system that stores and transfers messages by telephone. Last year the three-year-old firm had sales...