Word: tapings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks, but also have to issue permits for dogs, guns, private detectives, itinerant musicians, pawnbrokers, junk dealers, new-and used-car dealers, and hackney cabs. In Los Angeles, policemen going on duty must pause for a reading of schoolchildren's essays on the glories of the L.A.P.D. Red tape envelops every police department, but few can compete with New York's for sheer bulk. A New York cop who arrests a teen-age drug addict must fill out well over 100 forms?enough to make any but the most conscientious think twice before stopping a suspect...
...Biennale has been about as popular as the only roulette wheel in town. Italians complain that the bureaucrats who administer it, under a Fascist law originally enacted in 1927, discriminate against Italian artists whom they dislike. Foreigners gripe about the oversize Italian pavilion and the reams of red tape. In the 1950s, when the Grand Prix was awarded to established artists, the avant-garde snarled about outdated academism. In the 1960s, when the prizes went to raffish radicals like Robert Rauschenberg and Julio Le Pare, the rear guard sneered that Venice was falling prey to fashion and backstage conspiracies...
...Comedian Peter Sellers, 42. The frantic pace of traveling with Peter was what did it, she said. "It might sound fabulous, but you can't imagine how exhausting it is transporting a baby, a nanny and all your possessions all over the world. I always travel with my tape recorder, radio, camera, ten framed pictures of my family, my very own lace pillow, three hair dryers, six hairpieces, and masses of knitting I know I'll never finish." Britt had some other complaints too. "I don't like the way he allows his life to be governed...
...Minutes. ABC thus was first on the screen-at 12:19-with wobbly video tape from the murder scene. CBS's Roger Mudd, in the ballroom during the shooting, was alerted by a man who tore wildly out of the kitchen corridor, put his finger up to his head like a pistol and yelled, "Bang, bang, bang!" "That turned my stomach," recalls Mudd. He and his crew then tore their camera off the tripod and plunged into the corridor. It was a standard film camera, and so was NBC's. By the time CBS and NBC got their...
...himself was wounded. He delivered a dramatic personal report from his stretcher: "It was a shocking experience. There was a body on the floor, and I saw other bodies crumpled beside me . . ." The Mutual radio network's Andrew West, who was also in the passageway with his tape recorder during the shooting, came out with a report so gripping that the three TV networks and about 2,000 radio stations picked it up for rebroadcast. Excerpts...