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...sign in, have his passport checked and business verified at a gatehouse. Searchlights sometimes follow him across the courtyard, closed-circuit TV cameras beam his image to half a dozen screens inside. Behind the electronically controlled door, credentials are checked again, cameras and tape recorders yielded. An electronic detection booth checks further for hidden weapons; Marines stand ready to frisk thoroughly. Finally, when a member of the embassy staff emerges to provide a personal escort, the thoroughly inhibited visitor is allowed to penetrate into the inner sanctum...
...donated the lot to the church and set up a booth at its fair. The sign on the booth said IF YOU'VE GOT THE DOLLAR, WE'VE GOT THE TIME. Interest was strong for this nostalgic trip, and we took many orders. But it didn't stop there; word spread, and we filled orders for more than 600 copies. Since then we have had orders for more than 100 other copies, and the phone still rings...
From the time Arledge joined ABC in 1960 (he became president of ABC Sports in 1968), almost everything he touched turned to gold: NCAA football, Wide World of Sports, Monday Night Football (with the ineffable Howard Cosell in the announcing booth), even the Battle of the Network Stars and all its banal offspring. Under his leadership, ABC bid millions to televise the Olympics and transformed the games into global theater. His use of multiple cameras, instant replay, slow motion, on-field microphones and other electronic gimmickry revolutionized sports coverage...
...typical stand-up booth is about three feet square and lined with reflectors and Westinghouse lamps of varying lengths that look like fluorescent lights but emit an average total of 560 watts of long-and medium-frequency ultraviolet rays. Unlike the infra-red sun lamps used at home, these lights give off very little heat. Doctors have long used them to treat serious skin conditions; the franchisers have merely put them in tanning booths. One minute under the lamps is said to equal an hour in the summer sun; sometimes ten visits are needed before the "sun worshiper" starts sporting...
Novelist George O'Toole, a former CIA official and author of An Agent on the Other Side, follows sleuth and Booth with verve, humor and impressive scholarship. As he points out, "In the century that has passed since one of the most important single events in American history, not a single book written about it, traditionalist or revisionist, can be relied upon to be accurate, even as to details that should not be controversial, and which don't seem to have any sinister meaning." For lovers of the Learned Footnote, this may be one of the most edifying...