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Usually at this time of year Harvard seniors are eagerly awaiting graduation, busy working on their dissertations, and looking forward to graduate school. But things have changed. While in the past an eavestdropper might have overheard discussions about Shakespeare or Keynesian economics, this year almost every conversation focuses on one topic: the latest vogue in avoiding the draft...
...constitutionally acceptable if the eavesdropper obtains a warrant by showing probable cause to a proper judicial authority. Then, during the bugging, he must observe the precise limits outlined by the court when the warrant was obtained, and finally, he must report back to the court on just what was overheard as a result of the surveillance. But the court did not say anything that would keep him from using any of the dozens of new, sophisticated devices...
...Dolores puts it another way. "What Bob means to America," she says, "is simply what his name means-hope." Or perhaps it's just as Kelly and Nora Hope concluded many years ago when they were little kids. Kelly was overheard asking Nora: "Is everybody in the world Catholic?" "Yes," replied Nora, "everybody but Daddy. He's a comedian...
...Alton Wayne Roberts off to jail without bond. "I'm not going to let any wild man loose on a civilized society," he lectured Roberts. Roberts, a swarthy, former nightclub bouncer, had said earlier that the judge had given a "dynamite charge" to the jury. "Well," Roberts was overheard telling Price, "we've got the dynamite for him ourselves...
...clear. During a TV interview last month, Hoffer predicted L.B.J. would be "the foremost President of the 20th century." Wasting no time, Johnson brought Hoffer to the South Lawn of the White House last week for a chat. "The Trumans and the John sons get things done," Hoffer was overheard assuring the President at one point. "Don't worry about the polls," he said at another. The two toasted each other in Fresca, which Johnson calls "Fresco," then posed for photos, which were sped across the nation to show there are still those who go all the way with...