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...auto dealer makes it a point to steer his auto-financing business to local rather than California lenders. The Puget Sound National Bank boasts in TV commercials of being the last locally owned bank in the state. TV anchors play to the crowd by deriding Californians for building show-off "French chateaus." And radio station KEZX has been airing a new local folk song, Don't Come to Seattle...
...Immediate shortfalls can be bridged by relying on Chairman Carl Westcott's other brainchild, the profitable Automotive Satellite Television Network, which beams the latest sales techniques to 4,000 car dealers. LETN is betting on a long, successful run and, like any other network, hawking its new fall shows. Trumpets an LETN program guide: "Coming in cooperation with the Drug Enforcement Administration, Drug Crackdown, a new weekly program with DEA instructors, field-action footage, investigative insights, survival tips and management strategies." The show premieres this week. Stay tuned...
...taping is to start on this sunny Tuesday afternoon, an earthquake strikes San Francisco. But the only tremor felt by ) the crowd filing into a Paramount sound stage 350 miles to the south is one of anticipation. Two women from New Orleans are congratulating themselves on getting into the show twice in three days (they stood in line for tickets at 7 a.m.). A couple of teenage guys from Orange County are making time with two girls they met in line. A twentyish blond from Los Angeles sings the praises of the young comic she is waiting...
Arsenio Hall, at the same moment, has no inkling of the earthquake either. (The news reaches him later, midway through the show, though he doesn't mention it on the air.) With minutes to go before his 5:15 deadline, he is in his dressing room, slipping into a stylish double-breasted jacket, glancing briefly at his cue cards and getting some final dabs of makeup. With only seconds to spare, he bops downstairs, wades through a phalanx of enthusiastic staffers, then darts behind a blue translucent curtain. The band blares, the announcer wails. Hall sinks to one knee...
Documents released this Saturday by the National Security Archive show that the FBI began to check librarians to discover "whether a Soviet active-measures campaign had been initiated to discredit the Library Awareness Program." Implicit in this request is the FBI's belief that any criticism of its programs is downright un-American...