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...Stenographer Henry Kannee suggested that such talks be recorded. The technology of bug ging was still in its infancy, but David Sarnoff, then president of RCA, donated to Roosevelt an experimental device similar to machines used in making sound films. The microphone was hidden in Roosevelt's desk lamp, and it could be switched on or off by a button in a drawer. Roosevelt used the machine between August and November mainly to record 14 press conferences, where no direct quotation was ever allowed. Butow speculates that on several occasions F.D.R. simply forgot to turn the machine...
Voyager II, for showing us that this planet is only a small piece of glass in a cosmic lamp...
...Black Bears just have too much talent not to sneak into the playoffs somewhere. The main man is senior defenseman Andre Aubut, a second-team all-league selection who might be the ECAC's finest all-around defenseman. Look for diminutive senior Robert Lafleur to light the red lamp with regularity...
...Sampson. Its great disadvantage is his supporting cast. Sampson, you will remeber, is the 7-ft. 4-in center that NBC commentator Al McGuire will tell you 10 or 20 times a game is the "Player of the Century." Unfortunately for Cavalier Coach Terry Holland, the loss of Jeff Lamp and Lee Raker ro graduation means that opposing teams will be able to put a lot more pressure on Sampson. No matter haw good he really is, the big guy won't be able to do wonders when he is triple-teamed around the basket...
...major reasons it works so well. Cutler, too, has a balancing act to perform--that thin line between silence and stasis--and for the most part he pulls it off. In the tiny space of the Loeb Ex, with nothing but a white backdrop, an antique lamp, an overstuffed chair and elegant lighting by David Van Taylor, the action begins simply as the detectives confront the eerie outline of a body on the floor. This outline eventually becomes almost a character in itself--a totem, sinkhole and vortex of the show--but in its opening scenes the play draws...