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...radio listeners, and an estimated 400 million TV viewers around the world, strained for further news from Rome. In the minutes that followed the first bulletin, CBS-TV, then ABC and NBC interrupted soap operas and game shows with special reports that echoed painfully in the memory. Journalists were dismayed by the similarity with the shooting of President Reagan just six weeks earlier. Said ABC-TV Anchorman Ted Koppel: "We have all too much experience with this kind of story...
Cruising's biggest boost of all may be the Love Boat connection. In a bizarre show of life panting after artifice, passengers scramble aboard the cruise ships with expectations that their hours aboard will replicate the determinedly fatuous ABC-TV series, in which two or three romances seem to occur per nautical knot and (old tars squirm again) Hollywood pretty-kins impersonate the ship's crew. The emcees sprinkle their repartee with Love Boat jokes ("The captain can marry you on board. Every marriage is good for four days"). The Los Angeles-based Princess ships, on which Love...
...ABC, NBC and CBS broadcast television specials on Lennon's life. BBC-Radio One, like dozens of radio stations in the U.S., played Beatle records almost exclusively for days after the murder. Boston's classical music station WBGH-FM aired a symphonic medley of Lennon's music. ABC-TV closed its news broadcast on Christmas Eve with Lennon's recording Happy Xmas (War Is Over), showing a montage of Lennon's life and Pope John Paul II bestowing a blessing as Lennon sang "And so this is Christmas. I hope you have...
...known was that the U.S. was working on some sort of radar-foiling aircraft, although aspects of the program had been quietly incorporated into the design of the operational SR-71 reconnaissance plane and the cruise missile. Then someone began leaking news on Stealth. Within five days, Aviation Week, ABC-TV and the Washington Post reported on the project. On Aug. 14, Post Reporter George C. Wilson wrote that President Carter was about to commit himself to the development of a bomber "virtually invisible to enemy radar" and that it might help him counter Republican charges that he had neglected...
...months, three rulings have dealt heirs of the famous a heavy blow. In December the California Supreme Court reversed the Lugosi decision. It also rejected the claims of a nephew of Rudolph Valentino, who had sued over a fictionalized account of his uncle's life broadcast on ABC-TV. Then in March a U.S. appeals court overturned the Tennessee ruling on the Presley statuettes...