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...noticed that the film was about to open at his friendly neighborhood theatre, the Harvard Square, where it is now playing (adv.) and where his request for a reviewer's pass would have been honored, allowing him to observe, among other things, that Audrey Hepburn never, never wears four-inch heels. Jey A. W. Pratt, Harvard Square Theatre...
Lyndon even made U.S. hatmakers happy-something that tousled Jack Kennedy was never able to do-by inspiring an L.B.J. hat. The Hat Corp. of America announced plans to put out two-and three-gallon models with relatively narrow two-inch brims-scaled-down versions of Lyndon's five-gallon Stetson. One thing that is not scaled down is the price-which ranges from $12.95 to $100. All that Lyndon gets from the deal is publicity, but that's enough...
Most bugging is done with simple apparatus, since the tiny transmitters usually have to be abandoned on the job. The smallest bug in common use is about one inch square, and it must be clipped to a metal object or trail a few 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...
...induction coil, two inches long and three-quarters of an inch in diameter, that can be set beside the wire to tap a telephone...
...student usually lost, for Higgs is reticent about his past, and his "conversion" has left no visible scars. Still the complete Southern gentleman, he drawls softly and easily, smiles often, listens courteously--with apparent interest--to any argument, and seems incapable of anger or depression. His 6 feet, 3 inch frame moves with an awkward rural grace, out of place, and charming, in both the halls of Congress and the dining room of Leverett House. The aloof informality suggests anything but a stormy past...