Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more mundane "sections watch television" would do as well--is characteristic of Courses of Instruction. And, no less so, of Rules Relating. Both volumes are filled with prohibitions that "ordinarily" apply--"ordinarily" meaning that the prohibition is customarily waived for those willing to endure a bit of red tape...
MONDAY. Edgar Bronfman left his estate by helicopter to assemble the huge amount of cash in Manhattan. A tape recording arrived by mail at his Park Avenue apartment. It contained Sam's voice, assuring his father that he was well but pleading for prompt payment of the ransom. Sam said he wanted to come home...
WEDNESDAY. The kidnapers sent another taped message to the family. In it Sam expressed alarm over the newspaper accounts of ransom negotiations and urged that such reporting be cut off. He said that the revelations could endanger his life. (Justice Department and FBI officials in Washington shared this concern over press disclosures and talked of taking legal action against newspapers if Sam were harmed as a result.) The tape included music playing faintly in the background, reassuringly indicating that Sam was not buried. But FBI analysts learned that the tape might have been erased twice, then recorded a third time...
THURSDAY. A third tape recording reached the Bronfman family. This time Sam's voice was even more urgent. He again protested the newspaper leaks and asked his family to stop "fooling around"; the situation was too "serious." Deeply concerned about the failure of the night before, the family sent a spokesman to read a statement to reporters at the gates of the estate. It urged the abductors to provide new instructions that were "clear, specific and practical" and "to renew their contacts by calling us at the number they originally indicated." The family had complied with all instructions...
...Times Columnist James Reston: "Won't other big shots or notorious characters demand their price?" Now the most notorious big shot of all has done just that. Last week David Frost, 36, the British talk-show host and entertainer, announced that he had bought the right to video-tape a series of exclusive television interviews with Richard Nixon, who has granted no audiences to the press since he left Washington a year ago. The price: reportedly somewhere between $650,000 and $750,000. Though Nixon's literary agent, Irving ("Swifty") Lazar, announced that "Mr. Nixon chose David Frost...