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...think it's extraordinary," Leonard Bernstein 39 was overheard remarking at intermission...
...broken only by the swirling of a sandstorm. Then the phone rang at the U.S. embassy. It was a call from Noel. "Is there any news from the governments involved?" he asked a surprised First Secretary M.A. Sanderson Jr. "They have been contacted," Sanderson replied, adding: "Are we being overheard?" "Affirmative," said Noel. "A high official is arriving from Washington and may be able to do something," said Sanderson. "What time will he arrive?" asked Noel. "He is due in half an hour," replied the First Secretary. "That will be too late," said Noel, and the phone went dead...
Political rumors don't always get started from conversations overheard at cocktail parties. Take the one that emerged from the sixth birthday party for Happy and Nelson Rockefeller's second child, Mark. "Were his mother and father there?" one mother asked her son afterward. "Yes." "You know his father is the Governor?" Replied the six-year-old: "No, he's not. She's the Governor and he's the Assistant Governor...
...comes naturally to Attorney Witkin, 33, Insurance Executive McCarthy, 44, and Real Estate Broker Andelman, 36. They were "discovered" four years ago when an executive from station WUNR overheard their loud banter in a Boston bar and invited them to sound off at a microphone. Sports Huddle was such an instant hit that six months later it was transferred to WBZ, a 50,000-watt station heard in 32 states and Canada. Before long, the station, which also broadcasts the Boston Bruins' games, had some grievances of its own: McCarthy dismissed Bruin President Weston Adams Jr. as "the biggest...
...receiving end of the monitoring equipment-possibly people high in the Republican ranks. And to whom was O'Brien talking in those weeks before the convention? "Perhaps every prominent Democrat in America," said O'Brien-including all the presidential hopefuls. "My phone was tapped, my conversations overheard, my files invaded, my correspondence photographed...