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...brought in a six-pack of beer and drank one the minute after he handed in his thesis," Gerard F. Denault, tutorial secretary for the History Department said. "Our wierdest story, however, is about someone who put their thesis into a computer and lost two chapters on magnetic tape. It's really too bad--he's applying for a waiver of our penalty of subtracting two points per hour," he added...
Side two adds significant elements: electric guitar and a big band. The second side is also more experimental, with its reverse tape effects and dynamic layered sound. Billy Ver Planck and his orchestra work up for arrangements for four of the songs, the most memorable being "Lady Scarface...
...security. First he has to sign in, have his passport checked and business verified at a gatehouse. Searchlights sometimes follow him across the courtyard, closed-circuit TV cameras beam his image to half a dozen screens inside. Behind the electronically controlled door, credentials are checked again, cameras and tape recorders yielded. An electronic detection booth checks further for hidden weapons; Marines stand ready to frisk thoroughly. Finally, when a member of the embassy staff emerges to provide a personal escort, the thoroughly inhibited visitor is allowed to penetrate into the inner sanctum...
...package containing specifications for the construction of a hydrogen bomb has just been delivered to the White House, together with a cassette-recorded message from Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi. With rising horror, the mansion's current resident, a decent but untested Southerner, listens to the ultimatum on the tape: If the U.S. does not make Israel withdraw from the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem within 36 hours, a nuclear device concealed in New York City will be detonated by satellite command...
When he arrived for the trial, the once clean-shaven Bindrim was sporting a full white beard and a recently acquired Ph.D. He produced tape recordings of the sessions that Davis attended; many of Bindrim's remarks appeared nearly verbatim in Touching. Bindrim was awarded $75,000-$50,000 to be paid jointly by Davis and Doubleday-plus $25,000 in penalties to be footed by the publisher alone. Last December, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the California decision, thus letting it stand...