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...Royal Roost. Then, mingling with well-wishers at the bar (though, true to a deacon's demeanour, not imbibing himself), Carter looked to and fro and said excitedly, "There must be 500 people here. We only expected around 25 or so." And in some impromptu speech-making under the klieg lights with the mayors of Woonsocket and Saugus, chairmen of his Rhode Island campaign: "Last week, I predicted for the first time that on March 9 I'll beat George Wallace in Florida. Tonight I'm predicting that there will be only two of us left at Madison Square Garden...
...hired. At the age of 16, he had made a 2½-hour feature for $500, partly bankrolled by his father, a computer executive. Young Spielberg premiered this maiden effort-a sci-fi monster flick-in his home town of Phoenix with all the trimmings, including limousines and klieg lights raking the sky. By 20, he was in college just outside Los Angeles and had bluffed his way onto the Universal lot, where he hung around movie sets "until I got thrown off. Hitchcock, Franklin Schaffner, I was bounced by the best Universal had to offer...
...prize money, and that knew the founder, took off. The response to the first story was so great that by the time of the second annual event in November 1973, twice the number of original entrants lined up--over thirty--and ABC and the radio people were there with klieg lights and cross country hookups. The challenge was even greater this time around. Beyond the pressure from regular patrolmen there was added the declarations of the Ohio governor and another governor along the route. Several teams took to subterfuges: one had a real epileptic ride with them as they drove...
...myths never die; they don't even fade away. Your statement concerning television at the Judiciary Committee proceedings [Aug. 5], that "a panoply of klieg lights transformed the committee room into a blazing national platform," simply demonstrates that its author was not there. There were no klieg lights and there was nothing blazing-or dazzling, or blinding, as some others have described it. Special soft lights installed in the ceiling yielded a light count that did not exceed 100 foot-candles anywhere in the Judiciary Committee room. A well-lit living room or office measures at about 100 foot...
...klieg lights were used. But the quartz lamps were strong enough to cause some committee members and spectators-and even one TV cameraman-to wear tinted glasses...