Word: overheards
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...Fortin, 51, the American Roman Catholic chaplain who holds Mass each Sunday for many in the foreign community at the U.S. embassy snack bar or in his apartment on Kutuzovsky Prospect, has come up with a practical way for his parishioners to ease their consciences without fear of being overheard. In a variation on traditional Roman Catholic practice, the chaplain granted general absolution to all who attended special services in the holiday season. But for those who still want to speak individually with him, Fortin offers a "walk in the woods" procedure that he hopes will foil eavesdroppers...
...kids in the Big City. And there are the songs themselves, with their laments about loneliness, their fantasies ranging from the crude to the delicately romantic, and their general paean to a life of high-powered lack of direction. "Let me tell you one thin," one audience member was overheard muttering on the way out, "that's just not the way it is in the suburbs of Detroit...
...conversation between Prosper Mérimée and Georges Bizet, overheard in the smoking room of the Parnassus Club...
...secures a court order to tap Harper's telephone. Unable to win immunity, Harper makes remarks to friends, overheard by FBI agents, indicating that he is about to return to Poland and sell an additional 150 lbs. or so of copied documents he still has stashed away. On Oct. 15, Harper is arrested; it is only two days later that Attorney Dougherty learns from the FBI the real name of his client...
Harper seems never to have realized that the FBI was closing in on him. In telephone conversations overheard by FBI agents on his tapped phone, he bragged indiscreetly to friends that he had enough money so that he would never have to work another day in his life, and moreover that he paid no taxes on his wealth. He also spoke of going back to Europe to attend to "two very serious business problems . . . I've been putting off for damn near two years." The trip, which federal agents presume was designed to sell more secrets, apparently was delayed...