Word: blimps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turned in the most impressive performance. With 14 camera crews, the Goodyear blimp, and savvy sports commentator Al Michaels on hand at Candlestick Park to cover the World Series, its sports division alone could probably have beaten the other networks' news divisions, as it did after the massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Anchoring from Washington, Ted Koppel again proved that he is unsurpassed in the art of extracting facts from chaos. While CBS's Dan Rather was still stressing the "unconfirmed" nature of reports about the collapse of the Bay Bridge, ABC (along with the ever enterprising...
...some family matters as well. One can imagine his frustration when, in 1964, the younger, illegitimate Yoshiaki broke tradition and presided over their father's funeral as chief mourner. Twenty years later, when the funeral of Yoshiaki's mother was held at Tokyo's Zojo-Ji temple, a blimp reportedly flew overhead publicizing a newly opened store belonging to Seiji's group...
...with a killer fish, a body-stocking condom, a ballplaying assassin (Reggie Jackson) and the Queen of England. As Frank could tell you, it's the same old story: "Boy finds girl. Boy loses girl. Girl finds boy. Boy forgets girl. Boy remembers girl. Girl dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year...
...Dallas messages stuffed in packages of tortillas urge Hispanics to "Act Now." In Houston, fiestas feature mariachi bands and free refreshments as a blimp hovers overhead with a sign proclaiming LEGALIZE TODAY. With means of persuasion ranging from radio ads to subway placards, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service is pushing hard to convince illegal aliens that they should take advantage of a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." Under a program mandated by Congress in 1986, they must move soon to apply for amnesty and obtain permanent-residence status. The deadline: May 4, though the Reagan Administration has extended...
That is a long way from the $150 a week Griffin made as a Big Band crooner in the late '40s, when he recorded I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Cocoanuts. Once a boy blimp who weighed 240 lbs., Griffin shed a third of that bulk so he could sing on stage. He later had a brief movie career, which included one line in a Doris Day film. Guest appearances for Jack Paar, Johnny Carson's predecessor in NBC-TV's late-night spot, won Griffin his own daytime talk show in 1960, which he syndicated...