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...worth waiting for. The persecuted author, who has spent eleven years in Stalinist prisons and in exile, mourns his fellow Russian writers who died in concentration camps. Solzhenitsyn writes: "In order to mount this platform from which the Nobel lecture is read...I have climbed not three or four makeshift steps but hundreds and even thousands of them-steep, unyielding, frozen steps leading out of the darkness and cold where it was my fate to survive, while others-perhaps with greater gifts and more strength than I-have perished...As I stand here today, accompanied by the shadows...
Bill Leonard's eyes snapped with anger. "It's a preposterous piece," he complained, "preposterous." Leonard, senior vice president of CBS News, then sat silent in his makeshift Miami Beach office, loathing William Shannon's New York Times column one more time...
Crammed into curtained cubbyholes off the convention floor or within the makeshift press headquarters in the garage of the Fontainebleau Hotel, correspondents filed well over a million words a day-250,000 alone by the Associated Press staff of 200. Besides the reporters from U.S. dailies, reporters descended on Miami Beach from 64 foreign countries, including nine from the Soviet Union; all manner of underground publications, from Rolling Stone to the Berkeley Barb; and 206 college papers, some with copy deadlines as distant as the start of the fall term...
William Ritman has ingeniously solved the problem of whisking us from Lady Brit's lovely house, with its profusion of potted plants, to the makeshift Army shelter and, later, to Undershaft's foundry, with its gigantic experimental cannon. And Jane Greenwood has provided appropriate Edwardian costumes...
...major assistance was a makeshift radio network that stitched together the community. When Wilkes-Barre station WILK was knocked out by power failure, nearby FM station WYZZ took over round-the-clock broadcasting of emergency news, aided by WSCR of Scranton. Public service announcements alternated with appeals for news of missing persons, directions for physicians and instructions on where to send food, clothing, bedding and money for refugees. Adding to flood damage in the city was a series of fires that could be fought only by chemical-spraying helicopters: fire trucks could not reach the scene. Most buildings burned...