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...Nightly News in the ratings (ABC has generally been a distant third), and became the first network newscast to expand from 15 minutes to half an hour. CBS News under Salant also launched the popular TV newsmagazine 60 Minutes, mounted controversial documentaries, and otherwise cultivated an image as the classiest of network news operations. A Harvard-trained lawyer, Salant was initially viewed with suspicion by CBS journalists, who feared he would succumb to commercial pressure from network higher-ups. But he won journalistic respect for his tough, sometimes prickly defense of CBS News against pressure not only from the network...
ANNAPOLIS, Md.--As Harvard was smoking Navy midway through the singles competition here Saturday, a spectator sidled up to Navy coach Bobby Bayliss--one of the classiest guys in college tennis--and asked him how his team was doing this year...
...knew they would, the I's soon developed into one of hockey's classiest, most talented teams. While the rest of the NHL watched awestruck, the Uniondale youngsters serenely survived eight must-win 1975 playoff contests, upsetting the Rangers (J.P. Parise decided the finale after 11 seconds of OT) and Penguins (coming back from a three-game deficit for only the second time in professional sports history) before bowing out to eventual Cup champion Philadelphia Flyers in seven, after winning three...
...mind-boggling how after two disappointing seasons, a temporary loss of home ice and a substantial loss of student support, this sport remains the classiest, the most intense, the most invigorating...
...Paper Chase (Sept. 9, CBS, 8 p.m.). All summer CBS has been touting The Paper Chase as its classiest new program. One can see why. Well acted and produced, this series has a highbrow setting (a law school), a prestigious star (John Houseman) and harpsichord music on the soundtrack. As if all this were not proof enough of culture, the first episode contains not one but two 25? words: "contradistinction" and "propitious." PBS would kill to have a show like this...