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...message does not get top billing these days, however. At a tour kickoff dinner at the Waldorf Astoria, Master Moon-as his disciples often call him-was presented somewhat vaguely as the standard-bearer of a new ecumenical morality campaign who is a staunch anti-Communist to boot. His audience was a prosperous looking crowd which was liberally sprinkled with U.S. military uniforms. Scattered among the guests, saying "sir" and "ma'am," were Moon's own well-scrubbed troops: neatly barbered young men in crisp new suits and carefully coiffed young women in demure dresses...
...record-tying score came with 11 minutes gone in the third quarter. Holt took the team 64 yards in 13 plays and sophomore halfback Burelle Duvauchelle followed his blockers off right tackle for the four-yard TD. Tetirick's final boot ended the day's scoring...
Football's first major concession to TV occurred back in 1967, when the Super Bowl featured two kickoffs for the second half; NBC had been in the middle of a commercial for the first boot. Today, time-outs are given for a sound athletic reason - the sponsors need time to air their messages. (Those sponsors tackle each other for the privilege of paying up to $70,000 for a one-minute, Sunday afternoon commercial.) The networks, with their zeppelins and zoom lenses, their dreamlike instant replays of color and violence, have changed football watching from a remote college pastime...
...police have not interfered with the patrols, nor have they received any complaints from anyone the Panthers have accosted. Indeed, the Panthers have gotten more heat from their own brethren than from the police. Bill McWilliams, owner of three gay bars, says, for example, that the patrons of his Boot Camp bar can take good care of themselves. Moreover, many of the city's affluent gays do not like the idea of hard-eyed homosexual toughs causing commotion in the streets. But Ray insists that his Draconian measures are necessary. "Middle America has always had a little tinge...
...have been offered since July through direct mail, newspaper ads and American Express, but it is too early to tell how much of that audience will respond. Nevertheless, the optimistic Landau has already begun selecting plays for next year, and for a Saturday-morning children's series to boot...