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From the long corridor of people came a roar that built into a crescendo. "We've got a winner," the man to the right yelled. The radio reports had been right, for striding down the asphalt, flanked by police motorcycles, was Neil Cusack of East Tennessee State, eating up the last few yards. Far above, the Prudential Center loomed in the suddenly grey sky as the crowd whistled and screamed its approval...
...most disgraceful part of this biography, because Blotner is no Boswell and could not pull it off, is the final section on the period in which Blotner knew Faulkner. The absurdity begins with "I had glimpsed him for a moment from the other end of the long, dimly lit corridor," and continues for 230 pages until Blotner's tasteless discussion of his realization that his would be the last hand to touch Faulkner's coffin as it was laid into the ground. Having suffered through these maudlin worshippings, it would be embarrassing to look Mr. Blotner...
...formed a double line as three members of the Rodino staff-Chief Counsel John Doar, Minority Counsel Albert Jenner and Assistant Counsel Robert Shelton -arrived at Washington's Federal Courthouse to pick up the evidence. The crush of newsmen, however, diverted the Committee lawyers away from this protective corridor as they moved from their car up the courthouse steps. In a second-floor jury room off the chambers of Federal Judge John J. Sirica, two of Sirica's law clerks arrived with the bulging satchel (bought by the special prosecutor's office for $37.95) containing the grand...
...electric motor. Electrical sensors in the cart pick up low-frequency radio signals from wires that are strung under the carpets along the desired route. Following their path, the 500-lb. robot stops when its photoelectric sensing system picks up signal lights bounced off reflective tiles strategically placed on corridor walls at knee level...
Brodeur began by redecorating his department. He placed a sign reading ROENTGEN STREET (after the discoverer of X rays) in the corridor leading to the radiology unit. Bare hospital walls were covered with giant murals of characters from children's books and television programs-Dr. Seuss's Cat in the Hat, Charlie Brown and his friends, and the Flintstones. The X-ray machine was labeled "Batman's Superanalyzer," and nurses were given brightly colored smocks...