Word: overheard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Following gambling leads, the investigators also uncovered a tawdry story at the University of New Mexico that involved faking academic credits for Guard Craig Gilbert. Agents overheard a conversation between Coach Norm Ellenberger and Manny Goldstein, his assistant, in which Goldstein said he arranged to get some credits for Gilbert by paying $300 to John Woolley, dean of admissions at Oxnard College in Oxnard, Calif. Gilbert had gone to school there for one year. The plan was to have Woolley certify that Gilbert had earned the credits at, of all unlikely places, Mercer County Community College in Trenton, N.J. Gilbert...
...only I could have imagined the scene I'd overheard! If only I could invent as presumptuously as real life! If one day I could just approach the originality and excitement of what actually goes...
...agents it has been my misfortune to deal with. Indeed, I have seen people so angry that they seemed ready to punch the agent. I have been told by a snotty agent to "take another airline" if I didn't like the way they did things, while I overheard another agent say that she didn't "give a damn" if my bag was on the plane or not. Good God! They ought to pay us for flying with them...
...trip to Moscow in 1972 marked my introduction to the use of the "babbler." This was a cassette tape I had brought with me, which played a bizarre recording of what seemed like several dozen voices talking gibberish simultaneously. If I wanted to confer with my colleagues without being overheard by listening devices, we would gather around the babbler, speaking softly among ourselves. Theoretically anyone listening in would be unable to distinguish the real conversation from the cacophony of recorded voices. Whether it worked or not we could never be sure. The only certainty was that anyone trying to talk...
Later that day, Carlo was overheard saying to a new customer, "Well, that's every shoe in the place. Unless, of course, you'd like to try the cruel shoes...