Word: ams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During Henry Aaron's 1974 stalk of the lifetime home-run record set by Babe Ruth (who dispensed autographs cheerfully and without charge but never could fathom their allure), Aaron took the alias of Diefendorfer in an attempt to throw off his pursuers. He registered that way in out-of...
The travel-agency business has grown heavily dependent on reservation systems and the airlines that own them, often at the expense of carriers without their own computers. Nearly 87% of all flights are now booked through the carriers with computerized networks, compared with 61% in 1983. The most dominant system...
The defining event for these radio activists was the battle early this year over the proposed congressional pay raise. Inspired by outraged callers, a number of talk hosts initiated letter-writing and phone-in campaigns, and kept in touch with each other to exchange information and plot tactics. The radio...
In defense, Mike Siegel of Seattle's KING-AM argues that "we don't manipulate, coerce or control. We're just the means through which the public is heard." Siegel, 44, is a relatively well-credentialed member of the talk- show fraternity. A Brooklyn, N.Y., native, he has a Ph.D...
If Williams and Siegel are generals in the new radio army, there are plenty of eager lieutenants vying for attention. Mark Williams, who came to San Diego's XTRA-AM from Phoenix last July, ticks off his on-air crusades with self-promotional relish. "In Phoenix," he relates, "I killed...