Word: tempests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Poker Games. A witness at the House Committee probe stirred the original tempest. Martin Kaiser, a Maryland electronics manufacturer, told the committee that he shipped bugging devices to the FBI through the U.S. Recording Company, which since 1938 has supplied the FBI with electronic surveillance equipment. Owned by Joseph Tait, the firm operated as a "cut-out," or front, for the FBI'S purchase of eavesdropping equipment; the idea was to prevent targets of wiretapping-such as gangsters or spies-from learning the bureau's capabilities simply by examining government purchasing records. Kaiser said he discovered that Tait...
...atmosphere at the school remained highly charged yesterday, and the future of the school and of its dean remains unpredictable; this week's tempest may turn out only to be a three-day blow. But as one GSD faculty member said last week, "There is a certain friction at the school. Without friction there is no creativity, but when it goes on too long, with misunderstanding after misunderstanding, the atmosphere ceases to be conducive to constructive work...
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed...
Mark O'Donoghue '73, another third-year law student and member of the Guild, yesterday said this fall's controversy between Sacks and the students who wished to see the report is "a tempest in a teapot," that "only came to the boiling point because we kept the heat...
...Tempest. Performed by the Boston Shakespeare Company, at the corner of Berkeley and Marlboro St.s, every Friday...