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...killed 10 patrons at the Leopold Café, a popular drinking spot, I sat there and watched an elderly carpenter with a ruler and tape take measurements of the large glass pane, damaged by bullet holes, that fronted the bar. Onlookers snapped pictures of the poignant moment of recovery, camera flashes twinkling in the crystalline cracks. At the end of the Inferno, Dante plunges into the icy depths of Hell and beholds the terror of Satan's face. But he finally emerges - and looks to the heavens, "to see again the stars...
...with the original film deteriorating, WPIX decided to reshoot the video as a six-minute 35mm loop. When producers approached the Mayor's office for permission to film again in Gracie Mansion, however, they were denied: during the production of the first Yule Log, the legend goes, the camera crew had removed a fire grate to get a better shot, and sparks had burnt through a $4,000 carpet...
...three-day translunar trip was unremarkable - as unremarkable as man's first journey to the moon could be. There were two broadcasts back to Earth - the usual all-is-well waving-to-the-camera fare. News reports were read to the crew by Houston: Eleven GI's were released in Cambodia; Julie Nixon and David Eisenhower were married in New York; the Cleveland Browns beat the Dallas Cowboys 31 to 20 on Sunday and the Minnesota Vikings would be playing the Baltimore Colts on Monday. Lovell picked Baltimore...
That evening, as families finished their Christmas Eve dinners, the astronauts pointed their camera out the window and beamed home a grainy, gray view of the alien world they were circling. Everywhere on the planet, viewers tuned in, making up what was then the largest TV audience in history. Borman, Lovell and Anders had been instructed to do whatever they felt was appropriate to mark the moment. A friend of Borman's had suggested they read from the book of Genesis, and so its first 10 verses had been typed up on a piece of fireproof paper before the crew...
...Club located at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, in nearby Kaneohe. Alan Shinn, who lives a block away from the security checkpoint leading to the Obama compound on Kailuana Place, says all day long cars drive down to the checkpoint and are turned away, usually with a passenger holding a camera inside. "Everybody is excited about him being that close," says Shinn, "There are a lot of people walking by, people we've never seen in the neighborhood before. My wife called to say he came back from a workout and 'he waved at me.' A hand wave from the President...