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...announcing the event to the press an ample attendance of newshawks and cameramen as well as a batch of clergymen and investigators of Senator La Follette's civil liberties committee was insured. At the appointed time, Organizer Richard Truman Frankensteen, head of the U.A.W. Ford drive, accompanied by his lieutenant, Walter Reuther, appeared. Leader Frankensteen, a husky 30 and onetime football player (University of Dayton), led the way up a long flight of stairs to the overpass to supervise the handbills' issuance. He was smiling for photographers as a group of Ford men approached. Someone shouted...
...phalanx of photographers, TV cameramen and reporters eagerly awaiting her arrival outside the British Museum last week must have reminded Melina Mercouri, 57, of her heady days as one of Europe's leading actresses. But in her current role as Greece's Minister of Culture, Mercouri was seeking publicity not for herself but for a favorite cause: the Elgin Marbles, which were the Acropolis Marbles before the Seventh Earl of Elgin removed them in 1801 with the agreement of the occupying Turkish Ottoman Empire. Athens says it wants them back; the British say that the Greeks have, terribly...
That Friday, a man named Cecil Andrews called the local television station four times threatening to set himself on fire in the town square as a protest against unemployment in America. An official at the station telephoned the police, and then sent two cameramen to the square. At 11:10 p.m. the cameramen found Andrews. They were certain, they said later, that police were hiding somewhere in the small square, and would intervene. So they started to film, watching from a few yards as Andrews doused himself with lighter fluid and fumbled with matches. A flame started...
...people who watched a woman being raped last week, and the cameramen who watched Cecil Andrews burn himself, were not mere inactive bystanders. They were audiences. Social conditioning may explain people's fear of getting involved. But something about last week's events defies explanation...
...Diana was supposed to be there taking riding lessons (family tradition suggests that a Windsor Queen should be able to ride, but the Princess, who fell from a horse when she was small, has no love for the sport). Carraro's information was accurate. After dodging hordes of amateur cameramen and the police, and being scared silly by the Queen's pack of search dogs as he hid with two other cameramen in bushes near the Sandringham riding fields, he clicked off $1,500 worth of shots of Diana, the Queen and Charles on horseback. "Charles...