Word: tapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strolling down 48th Street in Manhattan one afternoon last week, a visiting Frenchwoman felt a light tap on her arm. "Lady," said a frowzy, spiritless panhandler, "c'n ya lemmee have a quarter to buy my little boy some milk?" As the woman reached into her purse, the city's street sounds suddenly receded, and she heard the blare of a rock-'n'-roll tune. She glanced around, at length found the source of the music: the panhandler was carrying a small transistor radio. The Frenchwoman snapped shut her purse and marched...
...directors of the nation's third biggest automobile company have been knocking on corporate doors across the U.S. seeking a new president. Last week, in a move that caught Detroit by surprise, the Chrysler board called off its hunt for an outsider and turned inside to tap Administrative Vice President Lynn Alfred Townsend...
Highball Relay. From long experience, diplomatic personnel only say on the telephone what they want the Communists to know. The Russians tap telephones so blatantly that-according to a cherished diplomatic legend-a Moscow operator once apologized to a U.S. officer for a delayed phone call, explaining candidly: "The tape recorder is on the blink." Westerners have learned to be even more leary of a telephone when it is resting innocently on the cradle. One of the Poles' pet dodges is to turn an idle receiver into a live mike, a trick most easily accomplished by replacing the phone...
Justerini & Brooks is trying to step up sales of its Scotch at home. Paradoxically, J. & B. is known in only a few London bars and hotels. But the biggest target remains the drinking American, wherever lie may be. Hoping to tap the U.S. tourist market, J. & B. last week was lining up distributors from Athens to Amsterdam. "We are aiming,'' declared a director, "at a chain so great that no matter where an American goes in Europe, he will never be without...
Sixteen cases of ale and forty of beer went on tap around the Houses as the impassioned battle for the joys of 3.2 beer came to an end. Around the turn of the year Harvard's first liquor license in 100 years made it legal to serve to over-21's at the dining tables. Within tea months, however, the administration announced that apparently the big thirst was only temporary: consumption was falling off and the College was losing money by supplying the few remaining quaffers. The liquor permit would be permitted to expire the following January, which...