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...about 1 per cent as prestigious as Harvard from an ego point of view, and certainly not as prestigious as IBM or General Electric," Hall said about his new post. "But I'm a risk taker and this company allows me to take on a challenge...
...camera seems to do strange things to the picture taker, viewer and subject alike. The A.P.'s Peter Arnett recalls watching a Buddhist monk in Viet Nam douse himself with gasoline and set himself on fire. "I could have prevented that immolation," says Arnett. "As a human being, I wanted to; as a reporter, I couldn't." Undoubtedly the issue was further complicated because the monk wanted pictures of his suicide circulated round the world...
...ever asked me one word about my war. In sardonic moods I used to go to Cronin's, when Cronin's was where it should be, right smack in the heart of things, and ask people in booths: Hey, wanna hear some good war stories? Not one taker...
More cities may soon feel the splat of the pie killers. For $50, Weiner is offering to any taker a "franchise kit" explaining the modus operandi. In Los Angeles, Pie Face International's Don Murdock is processing applications from potential hit men in Detroit, Chicago and New York, and has already taken on two operatives to service the capital area. "In Washington," he says, "the politicians are so removed from the people it takes a pie in the face to get them back to reality...
...tradition that a President's photographer should see and snap but not be seen and snapped. However, David Hume Kennedy, 27, in his six months as Gerald Ford's official picture taker, has at times seemed more celebrated than his subject-especially last month when he suddenly appeared in the news squiring Actress Candice Bergen, 28, herself on a Kennerly-conceived Ford photo assignment...