Word: overheard
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Crossing the Yard the other day, I stooped to pick up one or two of the tin cans and papers that lay in the path I was following. As I straightened up and went on my way, I overheard a little knot of French visitors who had been watching me with amazement. They stared for a minute at me and then at the rectangles of ragged grass, with their uprooted palins and their usual scatteration of papers, bottles, and plastic wrappers smeared with remnants of junk food "Tiens!" exclaimed one of the women. "It's democracy in action. The Americans...
...leaders to advance the date of their elections as an earnest gesture of democratic progress. It was deemed desirable that the U.S. role be secret, so that the move would seem to be a Salvadoran initiative. But on the flight back to Washington, a Tampa reporter sitting near by overheard the former Democratic Senator from Florida and his aides discussing the mission. The reporter confirmed the story with a flustered Stone, and the resulting furor embarrassed the Administration and nearly scuttled the plan...
...City luncheon for 20 top money managers held by Morgan Stanley & Co., the investment banking firm, Admiral Robert L.J. Long talked at length about the Soviet military threat. But at all the luncheon tables the topic of conversation was Volcker. At Manhattan's "21" Club, several businessmen were overheard discussing the Fed chairman. Eight blocks away at the Algonquin Hotel, Arthur Levitt Jr., chairman of the American Stock Exchange, and Jack Albertine, president of the American Business Conference, talked about who, if anyone, might succeed Volcker as they waited for their guests to arrive...
...overheard someone saying that Kirkland and Eliot didn't completely fill first round...
...companions noted, "That's worded for domestic political consumption." Feldstein grabbed an air-sickness bag and began to scribble down what he was hearing. As the plane drew near Miami, he approached Stone and told him that he was a reporter. Stone asked him if he had overheard anything; when Feldstein said yes, the ambassador tried to talk him out of using the story. Said Feldstein: "He said that I could destroy our sole chance for a nonmilitary solution in El Salvador. I told him if all this were true, then he shouldn't be discussing...