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...speck of interplanetary dust on a man or vehicle in space, Engineer Vernon Rogallo devised an instrument so sensitive that it registered the force of a single grain of salt dropped less than one-half of an inch. Then, at the NASA Ames research center in California, Rogallo overheard a cafeteria conversation between two biologists: How could they record the heartbeat of a six-day-old chick embryo without piercing the egg shell...
...react slowly, while older persons have less facility for perception of speed and depth. Interpretive judgments may vary with each individual's "age, race, nationality, sex, profession, religion-all his lifetime experience." Most people hear only what they want to hear. To an insecure professor, for example, the overheard phrase "ten-year plan" may well sound like "tenure plan...
...Guess. Mrs. Carpenter, 28, a pretty blonde, testified that two mem bers of Dodd's staff, David Martin and Gerard Zeiller, later surmised that Klein had paid Dodd at least $10,000 for his troubles. Mrs. Carpenter acknowledged that the conversation she had overheard was merely speculation, and Stennis dismissed the testimony as valueless. But Dodd was enraged that Committee Counsel Benjamin Fern had knowingly permitted the statement to come out, announced dramatically that he would request the Justice Department to institute perjury proceedings against Mrs. Carpenter. Subsequently, Martin and Zeiller swore that Mrs. Carpenter's testimony...
Some reactionary elements in the community have been overheard grumbling about what they called "a very filthy business" But CLEAN hopes that publicity can peel off some of the layers of local grime. The group has already received endorsements from the City Council, and even Lady Bird Johnson has congratulated them for their efforts...
Hardly anyone can be wholly certain that his confidential conversations are not being overheard or recorded. A microphone can be hidden in a ballpoint pen, a tape recorder made to look like a pack of cigarettes, a radio transmitter planted in a sugar bowl. Despite this rapid growth of electronic eavesdropping, federal and state laws protecting individual privacy are almost nonexistent...