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...Soyuz lift-off live on then-home TV sets. Soviet and American planners worked for months to draw up a mission sequence (see chart) that would allow live coverage of the main ASTP events-including the Thursday docking and the Stafford-Leonov press conference on Friday-during daylight hours so as to reach the largest possible worldwide TV audience...
Tokyo Kidnapping. Park used his enhanced powers to crack down even harder on his political opposition. Kim Dae Jung, who continued hyperbolically to brand Park an "Asiatic edition of Hitler," was abducted in broad daylight by the K.C.I.A. from a hotel room in Tokyo and spirited back to Seoul. Kim's kidnaping infuriated the Japanese, whose sovereignty had been crassly violated...
...certainly the most spectacular, as well as controversial. Seen from Central Park, it is dominated by a 67-ft.-high glass pyramid built onto the museum's original Victorian façade, with an atrium below, two levels of gray limestone ambulatories, and (sealed off from daylight on the main floor) so-called period rooms in which the greatest paintings hang...
Evans took to photography as something that he could make respectable. Scorning both the "artistic" and "commercial" examples of Stieglitz and Steichen. Evans forged a new photographic tradition based on typical scenes shot from eye level, usually from a middle distance, and in bright daylight. "Most photographers were very uneasy in my youth and they all were uncomfortable about whether what they were doing was art or not. I never was bothered about that, luckily--mencumbered by that nonsense." Evans always had a firm conviction in "straight" photography. His is "cool, precise as a police report, emotionally aloof," according...
...When daylight came, the charred head of one of the guerrillas could be seen in the wreckage of what had been the hotel's third floor. Blood ran down the broken concrete foundation, and bloodstained bedding billowed in the morning breeze. A three-man team, assisted by a cherrypicker crane, began searching the debris for bodies...