Word: whoever
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...tape?minute sections in which the buzz did not appear. Although undetectable by an untrained ear, they found in each of the windows "a fragment of speechlike sound lasting less than one second." These sections apparently were missed by the erase head in the multiple manipulations of whoever tampered with the tape. Bolt explained that the assumption that speech underlies the entire buzz is basically "a statistical argument." There are only three breaks in the hum?and speech fragments appear in each. But the panelists say there is no hope of ever recovering the original conversation...
...whether he is a Democrat or a Republican. He has never even voted, much less joined a political party. "I always encouraged nonprofessional soldiers to vote, but as a career officer I would not be partisan," he explains. "I had to give my complete loyalty to whoever was Commander in Chief. Then in 1972, after retiring, I still hadn't decided which if either party I would affiliate with." He has spoken with emissaries of both, but in a state where the Senate's Strom Thurmond is the only consistent Republican winner, most political observers doubt that Westmoreland...
Preece and Executive Editor Philip W. Goetz personally plowed through 200,000 words of text a week. Goetz once struggled home with a briefcase full of articles on analgesics, Scipio, polymorphic biology, Canute the Great, Ethiopian culture and someone named 'Umar al-Hajj, "whoever the hell that was. * "- Curiously, neither editor claims to be a walking encyclopaedia. "To be a good editor, you've got to have a mind like a sieve," insists Preece. Adds Goetz: "I can talk for two minutes on any subject under the sun, but the third minute is usually a disaster...
Professors Oscar Handlin and Donald Fleming sign a petition insisting that Derek Bok is, in fact, neither of them. "Whoever he is, he is a gosh-darned prudent administrator," Fleming says, "but whoever Derek C. Bok may be, he is certainly...
...Benson will be at Jazz Workshop this week. There will be soul next door, too, with the Persuasions playing Paul's Mall...Boston's big-name concert this week will be the New York Dolls playing the Orpheum. Never having heard them, I hope they're better performers than whoever writes their press releases...