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...various youth groups. Ticket sales of 5,797,823 broke the Moscow record (5,466,321) and left Montreal in the dust (3,195,170). Considering high ratings-90% of all American households had the Games on at some time-ABC seems unlikely to press for a boycott rebate. Anchorman Peter Jennings and the whole fall schedule have been shirt-tailing to glory...
...giddy with hope eagerly awaited the returns. Across town, in an auditorium draped in blue-and-white bunting, Likud backers stood around glumly, like pallbearers at a funeral. At 10 p.m., as polls closed around the country, all eyes at both headquarters turned to the TV screens. But wait. Anchorman Haim Yavin announced that there would be a delay before the first projections could be broadcast; an error had been made in feeding data into the computers. The minutes ticked away. Finally, at 10:20, Yavin delivered the first prediction: 46 seats for Labor, 43 for Likud...
Such an immense undertaking requires unusual effort, and ABC executives have planned for their 18 days in Los Angeles the way a general staff plans for war, marshaling a regiment of 3,500 employees. Among them: more than 50 on-air reporters and commentators headed by genial Anchorman Jim McKay, 1,500 engineers, and 250 drivers to move 902 cars, trucks and buses. "There are now so many people that I have to park three blocks away from the studio," complains a producer for Los Angeles' KABC-TV, which shares a parking lot with ABC's Olympians...
...term power lunch. Says he: "Power lunches are for those who have enough power not to go back to work." The house softball squad, Les Lapins Sauvages, plans to come out of semiperpetual retirement during the convention to take on an Eastern media team headed by NBC Anchorman Tom Brokaw. Eligibility rules for the Square squad should give Brokaw cause for optimism. Says Dietsch: "You have to be a drinker and over 40, or at least have a doctor's certificate to prove partial liver damage...
...local programming. In return, ABC provides spots for local commercials during Olympic programming. Even before the boycott announcement, some stations were having trouble selling those spots. So it was not surprising that a mood of dismay swept the ballroom of the Century Plaza Hotel when the affiliates heard ABC Anchorman Peter Jennings announce the word from Moscow. Said Arledge: "It's a disappointment. There are certain events that it would be very good to have them [the Soviets] in. But it is not as devastating as when the U.S. team didn't go to Moscow...