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Many laugh without realizing that the exchange makes no sense. You can hear the teeth grinding. the television cameras are still. A sound man in a turtleneck opens a window, the klieg lights are tested again while a foghorn from the lake sounds over the growing murmur...
...really, they were too futile to be scary. As most people left the Common, they gathered in mini-rallies all over the grass. The TV men turned their klieg lights on them and they cavorted with gusto for the cameras, led in chants by their cheer-leaders...
...Caracas' Palacio Blanco was crowded last week with newsmen and television crews. The government had hurriedly called a very unusual press conference. On display were two members of Fidel Castro's Cuban army: Manuel Gil Castellanos, 25, and Pedro Cabrera Torres, 29. Blinking in the glare of klieg lights, the Cubans were escorted into the room, one after the other, were briefly questioned by government information officers, and were then led away to a military prison...
After five weeks of political crisis, the leaders of West Germany's two major parties decided last week to form a grand coalition for the first time in the republic's 17-year history. Into the klieg lights of waiting TV cameras in Bonn's Bundeshaus stepped the Christian Democrats' candidate for Chancellor, silver-haired Kurt Georg Kiesinger, 62. "We had an eight-hour discussion of all essential questions, which led to a convergence of views," said Kiesinger. Beside him, nodding approval and sealing the agreement with a handshake, stood Willy Brandt, 52, West Berlin...
...sleeps on it. Glancing at U.S. bestsellers, Moore wryly noted that Harold Robbins' The Adventurers "introduces a different nymphomaniac every few chapters," while Masters and Johnson's Human Sexual Response describes hundreds of couples' reactions as they "perform their sexual functions, naturally and artificially, under klieg lights...