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...surface, the idea seemed, well, monstrous. But the deeper the New York Times looked into it, the more irresistible the venture became: the Times should go after the Loch Ness Monster...
Seven days later the story was Page One again. In prose evocative of earlier eras, Times Science Writer John Noble Wilford declared: "The search for the Loch Ness Monster has begun." Already 8,000 color photographs had been taken in the "murky waters," an "allnight vigil" had been mounted, and Expedition Leader Robert H. Rines had announced, "We have maximized our chances for success...
Good Taste. In the next day's story, the weather was "cool and blustery," and "hours in wind-tossed boats" were required before the "splashdown" of the complex lighting and camera equipment that would be used to photograph the monster. Said Rines: "Who knows, it could happen tonight." It did not, and "Nessie" news vanished momentarily, but the respite was brief...
...more than $75,000 it is investing, some of which it will get back through rights sales, the Times may or may not find its monster-scientists are much divided on the question of whether or not such a creature exists-but the A.A.S./N.Y.T.L.N.E. is already providing Times readers with an old-fashioned whopper of a story for summer reading...
...well after the late news and deep into the monster-movie hours, the time when TV punishes insomniacs with ads for truck drivers' academies and once-in-a-lifetime offers-"Send $6.98 for records, $8.98 for eight-track tapes" -for Tchaikovsky's Greatest Hits and the Best of Connie Francis. Suddenly, a smoothly handsome, oddly familiar-looking young crooner appears on a softly back-lighted stage. While he pumps a microphone and purrs out a ballad, viewers begin to wonder: Como's kid brother maybe? An Italian Goulet? Then on comes the voiceover, hailing the "mood rock...