Word: 44th
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Freshmen Per Arne Weiner and Dave Wood finished 34th and 42nd in the giant slalom and Weiner was 30th in the slalom. Senior Bill Kealey came in 44th...
Nightline, which since last April has been the only hourlong news show on any commercial network, will be cut back to half an hour on Feb. 8, coincidentally Koppel's 44th birthday. At the hour length, ratings sagged. Says Koppel: "We were on a downward spiral." Often the show gave a topic too much time, or jumbled together unrelated segments, some of them less than urgently newsworthy. Admits Executive Producer William Lord: "By thinking larger, we diluted the focus of the show." The biggest roadblocks, however, were local ABC affiliates. When the show expanded, twelve stations dropped it outright...
...journalist," he once said, "I am in command of a small sector in the very front trenches of this battle for freedom." For Henry Robinson Luce, the battle ended last week. On the 44th anniversary of TIME'S first issue, America's greatest maker of magazines died in Phoenix of a coronary occlusion...
...populist image. Last week he was wearing dark, tailored suits as he held court with fellow politicians, labor leaders and business executives at a long oval table in the Chamber of Deputies' ornate Sala di Governo. With a mandate from President Sandro Pertini to form Italy's 44th postwar government, Craxi was trying to cobble together a five-party center-left coalition. Joining the Socialists would be the Republicans, Social Democrats, Liberals and, most notably, the Christian Democrats, traditional masters of the Italian political scene, who had tacitly agreed to step aside and let an outsider...
...task of cobbling together another coalition government promises to be more arduous than usual. Whatever emerges as Italy's 44th postwar government, it will almost certainly be a transitional stop on the way to the 45th. -By Frederick Painton. Reported by Jordan Bonfante and Barry Kalb/Rome