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...trial charged with arranging the murder of 6,000,000 Jews during World War II. Each day, for months on end, he will be led down a guarded back stairway to take his seat in the bulletproof glass cage that surrounds the defendant's chair, listening through a headset, speaking through a microphone. At Eichmann's left will be the three Israeli judges who will decide his fate. In the amphitheater at his right will be the world's press, TV and radio correspondents. The latter clearly were the more important audience, for Eichmann's guilt...
...Pearl. The night now hung with bad weather: ceiling, 1,500 ft.; visibility, five miles; rain. Maxwell woke up, groggily plugged in his headset. He cut his speed to 200 knots to reduce the buffeting of the plane and the charge of the biting wind. "I think I said about 50 prayers. I thought about everything-the things I used to do when I was a kid, like playing ball, and my family. They were the ones I was really fighting...
...begun operations 750 ft. away in a sand-covered concrete blockhouse. A mile away, on the roof of a hangar, stood B. G. (for Byron Gordon) MacNabb, hardbitten, respected ("I'm just a slave-driving bastard") operations manager for Convair, Big Annie's builder. Tuned with a headset to the countdown, MacNabb relayed the information to a teletype operator below, who in turn flashed it to Convair's San Diego headquarters...
...Annie lifted off smoothly, her twin orange exhaust tails bright against the overcast. Up she shot, straight into the first cloud layer at 3,000 ft. as the shock wave, like a thousand backfires, rumbled up the beach and welled over the spectators. MacNabb roared into his headset: "She's still going! She's still going! She's out of sight, and she's still going!" Bursting through the low clouds, Big Annie flashed into view again for a second or two, then bored into the clouds at 8,000 ft., her course true, her engines...
...circle around a cluster of cameras, microphone booms and cables. Overhead glared a battery of lights. In and around the sets moved actors, cameramen, soundmen, stagehands, assistant directors and a stage manager in a reasonable facsimile of confusion. From the control booth, Director Seymour Kulik barked commands to his headset-wearing assistants as the actors, electricians and cameramen annoyingly muffed their cues. The play was To Each His Own, adapted from the 1946 movie that won an Oscar for Olivia de Havilland. Now, cut from two hours to 46 minutes, it starred Dorothy McGuire on NBC's Lux Video...