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...news-starved Russian people took quick advantage. Voicemen believe that about 8,000,000 Russians listen regularly to bootlegged news from the West. The reports then flash by grapevine all over the Soviet Union. The Kremlin's answer was jamming. But, says Voiceman Herrick, "jamming is like a chess game." First you make a move. Your opponent makes a move; then you make a countermove...
...Voiceman Herrick is confident that superior U.S. and British technology can lick the Soviet jammers. In this sort of warfare the offensive generally has the advantage. It is almost impossible to drive all unauthorized words out of a nation's air. During World War II, the Nazis used massive jamming equipment and also made it a capital crime to listen to Allied broadcasts. But the news still got through...
...There was not a topflight voice among U.N. delegates, said Major George Robert Vincent. As chief of U.N.'s sound and recording section, he had heard them all; as the world's greatest private collector of voices (TIME, April 10, 1939)* he ought to know. Last week Voiceman Vincent analyzed some U.N. voices...
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