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...Brag Sheet...
...shouldn't get involved in it." But then, NBC has had an Iranian advantage it doesn't brag about. When other American journalists were expelled, NBC's enterprising John Cochran was allowed to stay on. Publicizing a privilege might end it. But perhaps NBC also fears what the other two networks would say about favoritism. After all, only NBC, in the common eagerness to broadcast an interview with a U.S. hostage, was willing back in December to grant that Iranian woman student six minutes of prime-time propaganda...
...exorbitant lengths to build spectacular sports arenas, convention centers and cultural palaces, ostensibly to serve the public but also as a form of chest thumping. St. Louis has constructed an enormous and now familiar arch with no clear purpose other than to provide something for the town to brag about besides the Mississippi River. Today, it seems that every place is willing to suffer almost anything to get its picture on television or into films. Chicago, merely to smuggle itself into a new John Belushi movie, has just authorized the film company to tie up vital traffic along Lake Michigan...
...anything: a product, a geographical feature, the weather (good or bad), even notoriety. Many a place, in the Dodge City tradition, has nurtured its morale on a reputation for meanness: Harlan County, Ky., is famous for little else. Arizona hymns its dry air; Louisiana often builds a brag on its murderous humidity. Amarillo, Texas, brags about its yellow dust. Nashville has a swelled head over the racket, only occasionally musical, that it produces; Memphis lauds itself about the special quiet it has enjoyed ever since the late Boss Ed Crump banned auto horns. Apalachicola, Fla.? The oyster is its world...
...African leaders who converged on the steaming tropical capital of Monrovia, Liberia, for the 16th annual summit of the Organization for African Unity boasted, as usual, about the continent's "maturity." After four days of stormy confrontations, however, they could hardly brag about harmony...