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...House. But at least the President's embattled National Security Adviser cannot be accused of giving up without a fight. After his surprise announcement that he was taking an "administrative leave" (with pay), the hitherto reticent Allen faced any and all questions of reporters in an extraordinary media blitz (see PRESS...
Like a karate expert, Allen sought to use the resources of the press to upend it. In a media blitz, he made the morning talk shows (a CBS limo waited outside NBC's Today show to take him on to CBS). He seemed to do best with television interviewers who knew the least about the facts. His blitz even extended to an appearance on one of those l-to-5 a.m. radio call-in programs, the Larry King show. Perhaps his toughest questioning came after Monday Night Football, where he appeared on an extended ABC Nightline that...
...share of the calculator market is being squeezed on the high-priced end by Hewlett-Packard, while the Japanese have cornered sales of economy models. Its attempt to break into the home-computer business has been disastrous. As for digital watches, TI was unable to match the Japanese marketing blitz and abandoned the field altogether...
...pretends that a cultural blitz will gloss over South Florida's woes. Its ultimate salvation rests in its citizens' ability to unite and face the problems they have managed to avoid so long. In the past, South Florida's people have never failed to rise to the challenges that have confronted them. "It's a magic place, it always snaps back," says Mitchell Wolfson, a prominent businessman and member of one of Miami's founding families...
...other Ivy action. Princeton, with 385 total yards, smashed Cornell, 37-14. Fullback Larry Van Pelt scrambled for 118 Yards and two touchdowns and snatched a 12-yd. TD aerial from signal-caller Brent Woods to lead the Tiger blitz...