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...sophisticated electronic gear. With an inexpensive and readily available police-band radio, Sulman claimed, he had easily tuned in on Secret Service messages about Ford's movements. The disclosure raised the possibility that any plotter could fairly easily pick up conversations describing Ford's itinerary, or even jam radio messages between the agents by broadcasting on the same frequency. But the Secret Service maintains that anyone who wanted to do harm to the President could get much more valuable information about his schedule simply by reading a local newspaper. Besides, in a real emergency, the agents guarding Ford...
...alumni, the game awakens the biggest demand for tickets, except for those infrequent times when Yale and Harvard come down to the final game for the Ivy title. This year is no exception, as 32,000 will jam the stadium tomorrow...
Drago had come on in the seventh inning with a man on first and none out. He struck out pinch-hitter Billy Williams and then escaped the jam when Tommy Harper, running on a hit-and-run play, was doubled off first base as Bill North lined to Lynn in center field...
...eighth, Bando, who tatooed the short left-field wall all day, doubled for his fourth hit. But Drago squirmed out of the jam, striking out Jackson and getting Gene Tenace on a line drive to Yastrzemski...
...urban demonstrator: the citizens' band radio. When local officials realized that elusive troublemakers had been keeping track of the cops as well as each other through these inexpensive two-way sets, they struck back in kind. They obtained a powerful transmitter of their own and used it to jam CB channels with loud signals whenever the chatter indicated that rioters were on the move...