Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slipping. California's housing market is strong, but most businessmen remain skittish because of a 1975 Dunn & Bradstreet Fantus report that ranked the state's business climate 47th among the 48 states surveyed. For the first time in two decades, industrial investors, put off by bureaucratic red tape and environmental lobbyists, are bypassing California to relocate in other Sunbelt states. Statewide per capita income is still above the national average, but it is declining , as are the populations of Los Angeles, Oakland and San Francisco...
Dialogue from a grade-B Mob movie? No, it is the tape-recorded musing of Donald B. Yarbrough, 35, associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court. Added to Yarbrough's other troubles, which range from 17 civil suits to a forgery indictment to an 84-count disbarment petition, the recording may well herald an early end to one of the strangest Texan judicial careers since the heyday of Hanging Judge Roy Bean...
Closing In. Incredulous police strapped a tape recorder on Rothkopf's back and photographed him at half a dozen furtive meetings with Yarbrough, in an Austin motel room and various Houston parking lots and fast-food outlets. The tapes reveal a vengeful Yarbrough considering a murder contract on Bill Kemp, who had been given immunity from prosecution in return for testimony about Yarbrough's role in a 1974 fraud scheme. At the final meeting on June 10, however, Yarbrough turned cautious: "This is not the time to do it. The FBI is investigating me for all sorts...
...grew up playing with rag balls wound in tape; his prize possession was a Ted Williams bat won for his superior play in local Little Leagues. He even slept with the bat and was brokenhearted when it was stolen after a pickup game. His mother recalls: "He was still, quiet and alone as a child. He was always walking around with a bat and ball in his hand." His two childhood dreams: Go to the U.S. Become a big league baseball player...
...practical matter, the decision will not open the Nixon material to public view in the near future. Government archivists will require several years to screen the documents, and further legal proceedings could delay any disclosures. The Supreme Court is scheduled to decide next year whether Nixon tape recordings played at the Watergate cover-up trials may legally be reproduced, broadcast and sold to the public...