Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From a purely rational point of view he would be right. A machine that records the shape and transparency of your fingers on a strip of magnetic tape--no central files are kept, so the authorities don't know anything about your hand--is no more invidious than the cameras they use for bursar cards now. People who don't balk at showing an ID card every time they want to get into the dining room or the library stacks should have no qualms about hand prints. It's the same principle. The new system is only...
...minute gap in the tape of a Nixon conversation with H.R. Haldeman three days after the Watergate breakin...
...fraudulent autobiography of Howard Hughes as the genuine article, Author Clifford Irving, 44, is now having trouble balancing other books as well. Citing overwhelming financial obligations, Irving last week filed suit for bankruptcy in New York. His total assets, he says, are a $35 typewriter, a $50 tape recorder, a $75 camera and a $100 Mercury convertible named Barbara. Liabilities: $2,900 in hotel bills, $140,000 owed to the Internal Revenue Service, $235,000 in overdue legal fees, a $344,899 debt to McGraw-Hill for advance payments and a judgment against Irving for the Hughes story...
Popping a pop-rock cassette into the tape deck, Elton props his feet next to the television and watches the Bond Street shoppers through the tinted windows of his Rolls-Royce Phantom. "Turn here," he instructs the chauffeur, and as the burnished ark glides to a halt, Elton hikes his high-waisted green slacks and prepares to enter Cartier...
Tennis From Wimbledon. Women's singles at 12:30 p.m., men's singles at 5 p.m. Ch. 4. Tape delay...