Word: victimizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swimming team travels to New Haven today to become the 13th consecutive Eli victim of the season...
...feet of wire to serve as an antenna. Its range may be a few hundred feet. In such areas as residential Beverly Hills, where rooms are hard to rent and cars cannot be parked on the streets at night, the electronic sleuth buries a brick-size repeater in the victim's yard, threading its antenna wire into a bush. The repeater picks up the weak signal from a bug in the victim's house and rebroadcasts it in sufficient volume to be heard beyond the restricted area...
Siphoned Sound. Private detectives -fortunately-cannot count on cooperation from hotel managements, but they can often get into a victim's room by bribing subordinate employees. If the job is important and well paying, they try to plant at least three bugs to catch low-toned conversations in all parts of a room; then tiny cameras, often hidden in radiators or air conditioners, can be triggered by radio control. The most advanced still cameras advance their own film and adjust their shutters to different lighting conditions, but for a really fancy job a TV camera is the thing. Though...
...Soon he had 200,000 card-carrying fans. On his wedding day, 2,000 girls in black veils stood in mourning outside the church. But then Paul Anka and Elvis Presley stole his action. Tony's great fame sputtered and dimmed, and he drifted away - a "teen-feel" victim. Tony refused to yield to rock 'n' roll, and the kids who buy the records forgot all about...
...years, honors students get no exams. Then outside scholars give eight three-hour written exams, followed by eight half-hour orals. Joined in common cause, teachers and students sweat out the results as the outsiders compile a single grade for each victim. "Most students who go on to graduate school," says one who did, "are quite prepared to say that Ph.D. examinations are pale shadows compared to that terrible fortnight at Swarthmore...