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While Roman Catholic McCarty went to church to give thanks for his startling picture, editors around the nation peeled it from Telephoto receivers with mixed reactions. Some newspapers that passed it by-Chicago American, Rocky Mount (N.C.) Telegram-called it "inflammatory." Little Rock's Arkansas Gazette did not use it, and Editor Harry Ashmore said: "Moving the picture on the wire was inexcusable. The fact is that racial incidents are no higher here than usual, despite the continuing struggle over school desegregation...
...five-story apartment house at 17 Rue Lucien-Sampaix, in the working-class 10th arrondissement. A new building was going up across from the apartment house, and D.S.T. agents disguised in painters' white overalls drove up each morning in a truck that contained a battery of cameras with telephoto lenses. For days, everyone who entered or left the house was filmed. Separating the legitimate tenants from a recurring stream of Algerians, the police narrowed their search to a two-room flat on the fifth floor, rented by a 28-year-old French girl named Cécile Decugis...
...impossible for earth-bound humans. Some of these jobs might be difficult for a light satellite, such as the 21.5-lb. U.S. Vanguard. But a properly equipped satellite could take pictures of the earth or the sun and transmit them to the ground by some sort of TV or telephoto process. Such data, in the hands of the world's scientists, would give the human species a much better understanding of its home planet, and the ocean of space around...
Detective Fred Otash testified that Hollywood Research, Inc., a listening post manned by a niece of Confidential Publisher Robert Harrison, the king of leer, paid him more than $30,000 a year for his services. Among Otash's assignments: spying from bushes on Anita Ekberg, and taking telephoto-lens movies of her and her husband-to-be, Anthony Steel; "checking" some 200 Hollywood expose stories in two years for Harrison and others...
...charity. Complained Editor Knight: "How many times, for instance, have you seen Secretary Dulles' picture always looking the same, whether entering a plane in Washington or coming out of one in Geneva? I've seen as many as 15 pictures of President Eisenhower move on U.P. Telephoto in one afternoon and evening operation." Other picture platitudes that irk Knight include the congressional hearing that always seems to be shot from the same angle, the baseball "slide" that always looks the same "except for the amount of dust being scattered...