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...tape is scuttling their hopes for resettlement
...many Westerners all at once: 300,000 in three weeks next year, or more than half the number the city normally sees in an entire year. These tourists will have unprecedented freedom, if very little time, to move about on their own-and, interestingly, to use cameras and tape recorders in the cities they visit...
Comrade Grishin should pay special heed to the likes of Alfred Mayes, 18, an affable light-middleweight boxer from St Louis. Mayes likes to have his outsize portable tape player blaring disco music when he skips rope, and he did not alter that regimen for last week's Spartakiad What is worse, Mayes has made a few converts. He has taught the cleaning women his practice gym to lay down their brooms and pick up the beat. Wearing toothless smiles and saying "disco disco," they twitch to the music in a most un-Soviet manner...
...committee was fascinated by a tape of a broadcast taken from a police motorcycle radio transmitter that had been left on when Kennedy motored through Dealey Plaza in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. After examining the tape, an acoustics expert told the committee that there was a "50% chance" that someone besides Lee Harvey Oswald had fired one shot at the President from the famous "grassy knoll." Two other sound experts enthusiastically raised the chances to "95% or better...
...part of the program that could have fairly quick impact, if Congress approves, is the creation of an Energy Mobilization Board patterned after the War Production Board of 1942-45. The energy board would consist of three members appointed by and responsible to the President. Their mission: cut red tape. The board would be empowered by Congress to select projects-the building of pipelines and refineries, the opening of coal mines-that it deemed essential to expand domestic fuel output. It then could waive procedural requirements for endless hearings imposed by a maze of environmental, safety and other laws...