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Imagine the reaction of the jury when the inspectors dimmed the courtroom at the trial and ran the "30-minute, full-color videotape...showing Ferguson and Wilson chewing contentedly from time to time on items taken from the packages. "Perhaps it wouldn't have been so awful if the package had contained oreos or Lorna Doones, but chocolate chips hold a special place in the pantheon of American symbols...
...diamond status symbol that really separates the men from the boys: baseball cards. (The men are on them, and the boys collect them.) Bouton has come up with a proletarian variation on the real thing, individually printed baseball cards for even the weekend rightfielder. Bouton produces regulation-size, full-color replicas with any subject's face on the front and his stats on the reverse. Cost: $25 for a minimum of 50 cards, gum included. That's only a bit more than Bouton's real card is worth. "Mickey Mantle's card from his rookie year...
...months the Pentagon wrangled with the CIA over exactly what information could and could not be made public. For example, CIA officials vetoed satellite photos and insisted on fudging statistics, lest Moscow learn too much about how well the U.S. gathers its intelligence. The final document thus features full-color artists' renderings of satellite pictures, rounded-off figures, and vague predictions about forthcoming Soviet weaponry. "Every product of the intelligence community is a compromise," explained Weinberger. "Be thankful for small favors...
...largest in the sun's family, hardly seems likely to awe or surprise. Yet, remarkably, Saturn still has that power, as the Voyager 1 spacecraft so dramatically showed last November. Swooping within 78,000 miles of the luminous ringed sphere, the little robot sent back a collection of full-color images as dazzling as any ever received from deep space...
Today there is a Bible for every taste-or lack thereof. For the Christian who has everything, Oxford Press offers the Washburn College Bible, a dressed-up King James Version with 66 full-color reproductions of masterpieces from Giotto to Rouault and three screen prints by Josef Albers: $3,500 for a red leather-bound three-volume "limited edition" in a cloth-covered redwood case. A scaled-down one-volume slipcased trade version costs a mere $65. (Oxford's cheapest King James is $12.50.) At the opposite end of the cultural scale. Scarf Press and David C. Cook have...