Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conscientious administrator who wants to get a job done, carry out a President's orders or an act of Congress, the bureaucracy is often more of a hindrance than a help. "Managers feel they are so enmeshed in red tape that they cannot manage any more," says Jule Sugarman, vice chairman of the Civil Service Commission. Aside from directing an employee to the nearest coffeepot, there is little that a supervisor can do without encountering some cumbersome regulation. The 18 General Schedule (GS) grades of the civil service are largely insulated from outside pressure. An employee gets automatic...
...person who makes those curious, almost nonsensical lyrics work with his eerie back-up vocals is Waylon Jennings, almost as if Hank Sr. himself was back there howling into the 24-track tape machine. Jennings also produced this album, and to him must be given credit for the lean, Austin-like sound--this is the first Hank Jr. album in which he has gotten away from Nashville's slick guitar tracks and banks of strings that work for the Ronny Milsaps of the world. Waylon's bit in all this is interesting--he has an ego you could stretch from...
...smoking-gun tape from three days later, Haldeman adds some spectacular-but unverified-ramifications to the White House efforts to persuade top CIA officials to intercede with the FBI in order to impede the FBI's investigation of the money found on the arrested Watergate burglars. That tape, in which Nixon instructed Haldeman to ask the CIA to do this, put the lie to Nixon's repeated claim that he had not tried to block the criminal investigation into Watergate and had wanted only to protect any CIA secrets involving national security. It showed his real fear...
Jane Q. Student wanted to make a documentary video tape on street musicians for academic credit last semester. She had to do this under special supervision, because there were no courses in video. She went to the Visual and Environmental Studies Department and was told she couldn't use its equipment. She went to Harvard Video Services and was told she had to pay hundreds of dollars for their equipment. She eventually found her way to a cable TV station in Somerville, signed up to use public access equipment on a weekly basis, and was able to produce her show...
...students have organized a cable TV station, TUTV, which is supported by a $10,000 yearly grant from the student senate. The station is completely extra-curricular. Students train other students to use the equipment, which consists merely of one 3/4" color porta-pak (the size refers to the tape visual quality), two color cameras in the studio, and a special effects generator. About 40 and a special effects generator. About 40 students participate in the station, which puts out six hours of programming a week...