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...making of the mayor was also powered by batteries of mechanical equipment. A two-way short-wave radio system was hooked up between the hotel headquarters (code name: "the Mansion") and cars used by Bob Price ("Adolf") and Lindsay ("Benjamin"-for Disraeli). And there was "the gripe line," a special number on which New Yorkers could log their complaints...
DeWan called the Operation Match questionnaire "less sophisticated, appealing to the big, Mid-west universities." He said that under Contact's "two-way matches" which he described as an improvement over Operation Match, a student would be the "ideal" date of the person whose name he received and that that person would also be the student's ideal date...
...achieve a qualitative advance over any earlier road system, or any foreign system. The freeway's wide median strip virtually abolishes head-on collisions and headlight glare. Passing is made so easy that one four-lane freeway can carry about ten times as many cars as two two-way roads. Freeway cloverleafs eliminate the need for intersection stopping; limited access banishes blind entrances and overly frequent inflows of traffic. Gentle grades, ample widths and curves of an easy mathematical beauty let drivers see at least twice as far ahead as the distance they might need-even at the engineered...
...robbers. In a Goldfingerish effort to rob the vaults of Geneva's Union de Banques Suisses, she is a glowing decoy, dressed in a luminescent lace leotard and equipped with a lipstick microphone, a powder-case television eye, and a sapphire clip that turns out to be a two-way radio...
Coast Guard Masque. Long's hearings revealed many other IRS cloak-and-daggerisms. In Pittsburgh, agents had even electronically bugged the official IRS seal in the Chamber of Commerce building, and put behind the plaque a two-way mirror and a camera. In Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Montgomery and Kansas City, IRS conference rooms were equipped with two-way mirrors or hidden microphones so that agents could watch or hear taxpayers and their lawyers while they conversed. In Boston, an IRS agent disguised himself as a Coast Guard petty officer (although it is a federal offense to impersonate a military...