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...sports that ABC has not highlighted in prime time, when attracting an audience is most urgent, coverage has tended to be a little more balanced. Boxing Reporter Howard Cosell spoke enthusiastically about athletes from a variety of nations and led the way in pointing up U.S. Welterweight Mark Breland's first-bout unsteadiness. Equestrian Commentator Tad Coffin, a former U.S. gold medalist, described the multinational contenders in his sport with impressive authority and fairness. (Soviet coverage has been more one-sided than ABC's: its state-run TV has carried no footage at all of the Games...
...tower beside standard-size welterweights, Breland is a legendary eater and metabolic wonder who has yet to battle the scale. "I can have ten pancakes at a time," he says. "Then I walk about ten blocks and have to stop some place to eat." A roofer's son, one of six children who grew up in Brooklyn's grim Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto, Breland never found boxing particularly fearsome. "I like pain," he says breezily. "Before a fight, I am so hyped up I just want to bust. Everything boils...
Reversing the usual course, he has already had a major acting role in a motion picture, portraying a persecuted black military cadet in The Lords of Discipline. According to Manager-To-Be Shelly Finkel, a rock-music producer, Breland's future has been plotted along these lines: a gold medal in Los Angeles, five or six lucrative years on the world boxing stage and a subsequent career in the movies. Reportedly, a threeyear, $2 million contract from Paramount Studios has been rejected. But the first trappings of wealth have arrived: cousins. "I have so many cousins these days, they...
...which go by mail to paid subscribers, including Actor Jack Palance and Society Columnist Cobina Wright (no alumni). Inside the walls they are consumed with the avidity of men who have nothing but time on their hands. "The Atlantian must be well received," says Associate Warden Virgil Breland at Atlanta. "We don't find the commodes jammed up with torn copies...
...Another Breland project is to reform U.S. zoos. Breland believes that zoo animals should be trained to perform instinctive acts when given a triggering signal. In a Breland-type zoo, the spectator could put a nickel in a slot if he wanted to see the monkeys dance or the hippo plunge into his pool. For a larger coin, a quarter perhaps, he might see a lion charge out of a thicket and leap with hideous roars on a simulated gazelle...