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...Today show built an open-air studio across from Buckingham Palace and broadcast from there all week. Together the three networks deployed two dozen cameras at carefully selected positions along the route in hopes of getting exclusive shots of arresting moments. Explained ABC News Executive Producer Robert Siegenthaler: "The British feed tends to be stately rather than close-up and personal. Ours has more of a 'people' feel to it." Top ABC sports directors were called in to direct the wedding coverage, including Tuesday night's fireworks display, on the theory that they could lend extra pizazz...
Coke salesmen became increasingly nervous. One of them, identified only as Tin, spotted Pepsi Salesman Thongyu Meksuk putting up Pepsi posters in a small open-air restaurant on the outskirts of Khampaeng Phet, about 200 miles northwest of Bangkok. Such point-of-purchase advertising is important in Thailand, since about 96% of soft drinks are consumed where they are bought. Coke and Pepsi have long squabbled over prime space in cafés and other public places...
...Like most residents, he does not venture outside after dark, even to visit someone in a neighboring building. Says he: "If you can't talk to your friend on the telephone, you can't talk to him at all." Last summer during a card game in an open-air hallway, Terri Burch, 17, was shot in the leg by a sniper. "I'd like to move," says Burch, who is unmarried with one child and another on the way. "But I'm on welfare like everyone else, and they give me $207 a month. Where...
Some exhibitions of foreign artists, mostly French and American, come to Florence. Last summer there were shows with the works of Chagall, Matisse, and Cezanne. But these painters don't seem to inspire originality in today's Florentine artists. Down on the Ponte Vecchio, an old open-air bridge, students, writers, and artists meet and converse. City toughs also show up, and nearly everyone sells drugs. Marijuana smoke hangs in the air above those who paint, draw, take photographs, read, or do nothing but watch the river. No one seems busy: after a while it will irritate an American. There...
Some exhibitions of foreign artists, mostly French and American, come to Florence. Last summer there were shows with the works of Chagall, Matisse, and Cezanne. But these painters don't seem to inspire originality in today's Florentine artists. Down on the Ponte Vecchio, an old open-air bridge, students, writers, and artists meet and converse. City toughs also show up, and nearly everyone sells drugs. Marijuana smoke hangs in the air above those who paint, draw, take photographs, read, or do nothing but watch the river. No one seems busy: after a while it will irritate an American. There...