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...world's greatest all-round athlete? ABC-TV and sundry promoters went through the motions of finding out last week by staging a kind of mini-Olympics called "The Superstars." Ten top professional athletes were invited to compete in any seven of ten events, excluding their specialty. In return each competitor received an $8,500 chunk of real estate in a new Florida resort community called Rotonda West and a chance at $122,000 in prize money...
PROFILE: Dedicated, Incisive. A real leader, on and off the field. ABC-TV offensive player of the game for his performance vs. Cornell last season. Voted "Gourmet of the Month" by Harvard Lampoon's parody of Better Homes and Gardens Magazine. A high school winner of the famed Betty Crocker Future Homemaker of America Award. Had a great season with the undefeated freshman team of 1969, completing 45 of 83 passes for 779 yards. Led the Ivy League in completion average last leason...
...York City's WABC-TV, flagship station of the ABC-TV network. According to the complaint by the National Organization of Women, the station not only discriminates against women in employment practices but is antifemale in its basic approach, from programming to commercials. WABC'S local news, said NOW, is often given over to such "frivolous items" as women's pancake contests or stories about cheerleaders. Added to the station's own antiwomen programs, NOW charges, are commercials that reinforce "sex stereotypes" by showing women spending their days happily waxing floors or getting their laundry whiter...
...Libertine, "Makes Hugh Hefner's Playboy Penthouse look like a nursery school," says ABC-TV. 100 Baker, HBS. 7, 8:30, May 22-23. With a Roadrunner cartoon...
...Binary, which Crichton has just finished directing as an ABC-TV movie, a brilliant millionaire fanatic named Wright plots to destroy Richard Nixon. Wright believes that the President sold out the nation by breaking egg rolls with the Red Chinese. The Republican Party and the population of San Diego will have to go too, because Wright plans to saturate the city with nerve gas during the forthcoming national convention...