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Stacks of loudspeakers framed the stage like the barricades of a medieval fortress. On the floor lay a magnificent tangle of wires and cables. On the stage apron, like Buddha contemplating his navel, sat a giant electronic console glorying in its own inputs, modules and mixers. Visitors to the 2...
Once the towers were built, a cable could be tugged across the river and then hoisted above them. Progressively stronger cables and at last a catwalk followed. From there it was comparatively easy--stringing the rest of the cables from tower to tower, dropping steel suspenders from the cables, building...
Could the tragedy have turned out differently? Once the basic policy decisions had been made-not to release Arab prisoners in Israel for the hostages in Munich, not to allow the terrorists to leave the country with their Israeli captives-there was no choice but to try to stop the...
The two new anchor men on the KABC-TV news in Los Angeles were so charming that more than 10,000 letters came in-most of them saying things like "Please send me John Schubeck in a plain brown wrapper." Impressed, the station decided to do virtually that. It ran...
MOST people envision underwater mines as the sort of studded black balls that Gary Grant dodged in Destination Tokyo. But the delayed-action mines used to seal off North Vietnamese ports last week are considerably more complex. Sown by low-flying Navy planes, some of them were dropped to the...