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...first such experiment. Since the late 1940s, numerous systems, some of them versions of two-way radio, have been tested, but they were of poor quality and limited range. Private and corporate aircraft have long been licensed for radio telephones, but they require special operators, and calls can be overheard on some other radio equipment. Lack of privacy, however, has not deterred the clients of small and svelte Regent Air, which began the old-fashioned service in August. In addition to being provided with caviar and executive secretaries for $810 one-way between the New York area and Los Angeles...
Jackson complained in a Los Angeles Times interview that Mondale has "no coherent regional or national strategy or themes to attract black voters."After that remark was published, reporters overheard Mondale muttering, "It looks like I'm going to have to win this...
...Democratic nominee, Walter Mondale. Bowing to pressure from some journalists, and over the objections of others, he dropped a proviso that activities aboard his plane must be kept off the record. The impact was immediate: when Mondale complained to an aide about his difficulties with Jesse Jackson, he was overheard by a reporter and his remarks were published nationwide...
Though matters racial preoccupy the diarist, Notebooks also displays Fugard in relaxed moods: exalting the clean wind and open sea, excitedly reading Camus, Gogol and works of Zen. But the real strength of his personal record is its collection of stories overheard, incidents chanced upon, sorrows glimpsed by accident-the random scraps out of which Fugard fashioned his plays. As he listens to a vagrant's life story, accompanies a friend to court, watches two blacks carrying a wooden box through the night, Fugard registers and captures the keening images that are the very stuff of vibrant theater...
...operational friendliness animates buying sessions, covering-but not consistently concealing-certain inevitable animosities. The buyers think they are being pushed too hard to spend too much. The designers keep a little distance, knowing, at least, that any buyer is capable of the kind of catty commercial aside that was overheard in Miyake's Paris salesroom: "All my Issey customers have fat asses...