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Telephone officials recommend various ways to avoid a credit ripoff. For example, they advise cardholders to give their numbers to operators in a voice that cannot be overheard and, when possible, to use pushbutton phones that allow the codes to be entered without being spoken...
...January 25: Sitting in a snack bar at Washington's National Airport, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson uses the word "hymie" and the word "hymietown" to refer respectively to Jews and New York City. Jackson says he made the remarks in private and was "overheard" by reporters. Others say Jackson made the remarks while bantering with Washington Post reporter Milton Coleman and one other journalist, possibly from The New York Times...
...deeply disturbed. I watched as the words spread into paragraphs and then into chapters," he adds. "I was shocked and astonished as the press' interest in this ethnic characterization made in private conversation but apparently overheard by a reporter...
...news of what was transpiring in the Kremlin. For many, the stiff, unsmiling black-and-white portrait of Chernenko that appeared on the screen seemed to say it all. Soviets morbidly joked that if they had missed the Andropov funeral, they would "catch the next one." A man overheard on an elevator offered his own explanation of the succession: "Chernenko couldn't make it the first time when he was competing with Andropov. Now that the better man is gone he'll get his chance." Said a worried Moscow housewife: "We are going back to the old ways. Andropov...
...first class. Farther back in the cabin, rumpled entrepreneurs, tired from a day trying to raise money, punch away at their calculators. Occasionally the coach passengers glimpse a bright future ahead. Well before Zitel, a small computer-memory company, went public last month, President Robert Welch was overheard confiding to a colleague on a flight, "I can smell the Ferrari...