Word: tap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day came a tap on the door of Room 1877. French opened it warily, found not Russians but the FBI and agents of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. For reasons that spoke volumes about the vigilance of the FBI, the letter had never got to the Russians inside the embassy. No sooner had French tossed it into embassy grounds than it was retrieved-unknown to him-by an FBI agent who must have been keeping a close and effective watch on the Russians. The agent took one look, decided that "To Whom It May Concern" meant...
Sole Searching. In Kensington, Conn., an FBI agent spotted new wires in his house, reasoned that someone was trying to tap his line, ripped them all out, shamefacedly learned that the wires had been specially installed for a hi-fi set his wife planned as a birthday present...
...Mikoyan of 1957 can still turn on joviality like tap water, laugh off Khrushchev's blunted barbs, and knock back bottoms-up toasts in the Armenian cognac he calls "best on earth." He remains the Kremlin's jauntiest dresser and spriest waltzer. His wife Anush (whom he found in Rostov's Armenian colony just after the revolution) calls him babnik, which means flatterer. She once declared that he was one of only two hand-kissing, courtly gentlemen in Moscow (the other: Lavrenty Beria). They have four sons (another was killed in World...
Then, expressionlessly, he listened as the committee played recordings of two wire-tapped phone conversations made in 1955, after Dio supposedly had left the labor movement. One tap convinced listeners that Dio was still playing a heavy hand in extortion ("I'm telling him to put the pickets back on"). The other showed that Dio is a cog of sorts in the Hoffa machinery, which includes such officials as Teamster Organizer George Baldanzi. Teamsters' Eastern Conference Chairman Tom Flynn, and St. Louis Teamster Boss Harold Gibbons. And it also showed that one Tony "Ducks" Corallo, a mean-sounding...
Krupp engineers are also in Russia discussing details of a $3,000,000 synthetic-fiber and chemical plant now on Krupp's order books. In Greece the firm is building a $23 million oil refinery near Athens, is interested in setting up a steel plant to tap Greece's rich ore deposits. Kruppmen are at work on yet another steel plant in Pakistan. Other projects, from bridges to whole new industrial areas, are being pushed in Spain, Thailand, Bolivia, South Africa, Indonesia...