Word: xeroxing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Xerox Technicality. But legal scholars point out a serious hitch in any stolen property prosecution. The newspapers received duplicating machine copies rather than the actual Government property. While few doubt that stolen-property legislation could be drafted to include such copies, the fact that they are not now mentioned is likely to make prosecution difficult...
...four Supreme Court Justices indicated that they might very well uphold a subsequent espionage conviction. The act, among other specifications, bans "unauthorized possession of information relating to the national defense" and failing to give it up to the proper authorities; such information is obviously just as present in a Xerox copy as in the original. In addition, the act outlaws communicating such information to others, which could be taken to include the act of publishing. The penalty is again a maximum of ten years...
...that in an alpha state a sleep-deprived person may become effective again. Defense Department researchers are said to be toying with the idea that captured U.S. intelligence agents trained to turn on alpha could foul up enemy lie detectors and keep military secrets. In industry, major companies like Xerox and Martin Marietta are investigating biofeedback training to spur creative thinking and reduce executive tension; some are already experimenting with one of the dozen brands of portable brain-wave trainers now available for $300 or less...
Ellsberg rented a Xerox copier part time for about four months from a friend, Lynda R. Sinay, 27, who ran a Los Angeles advertising agency that was slipping into bankruptcy. Granted immunity from prosecution, she told the grand jury that Ellsberg made about 3,000 copies from her machine, working in her offices at night when no employees were there. He paid her $150. Ellsberg even enlisted the help of his two children, Robert, now 14, and Mary, 12, in the arduous copying task. When Ellsberg joined M.I.T. as a senior research associate in 1970, he transported the copied documents...
...great length its own role in the controversy over the Pentagon papers. "I feel miserable," said Times Managing Editor A.M. Rosenthal as he watched other papers print parts of the Pentagon mother lode that the Times had polished into an eight-day presentation totalling 250,000 words. "A Xerox machine," he grumbled, "is the only self-breeding mechanical contrivance...