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...quite different for American teenagers. Last summer, when the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists unveiled a new public service announcement designed to combat teenage pregnancy, all three major TV networks balked. The reason: the announcement included the word contraceptives. These are the same networks that, as one ABC official put it, routinely depict intercourse to "the point of physical motion under the covers of a bed." Network officials have since relented, but the offending word has been dropped...
...Sport Some occasions of joy, some of wistfulness, and one that is both: Howard Cosell leaves ABC...
...smooth, the trip for many voyagers was as hair-raising as a Snake River rafting expedition. In 1985 a parade of slumps, scandals, panics and just plain goofs rocked the business world. All the while, an unprecedented wave of acquisitions was swallowing up such well-known corporate names as ABC, RCA, Nabisco, General Foods and Revlon...
...ABC News and Sports President Roone Arledge's terse farewell was written with a dry eye, but the cameramen will miss Cosell. "One-Take Howard," they called him. He had hoped to become Walter Cronkite or at least Hugh (Downs for a hilarious few weeks in 1975, even Ed Sullivan), but that was so long ago. He will continue on the radio, and he will not be alone. For 41 years, his wife Emmy has stood by him with a devotion that might awe Mother Teresa. Besides that, he has all the love on the street. --By Tom Callahan
...company's insistence that they return to work under conditions set separately by Massey's 17 subsidiaries, rather than under a single set of terms. Although the war between the firm and the U.M.W. has ended, new skirmishes could soon break out in court. BROADCASTING Changing Casts at ABC...