Word: game
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bigger return from the tube. NBC sold nearly a dozen one-minute World Series spots to Nixon and Humphrey (at $40,000 per), only to run into the objections of Baseball Commissioner William Eckert, who complained that the fans should not be distracted by national issues during the national game. At week's end, Eckert decided to play ball. After all, officials of the Olympics, that bastion of amateurism, did not quibble when Nixon's camp bought some $500,000 worth of TV time to be aired during the Mexico City games...
...answer to numerous if inaudible requests to dramatize daily life on a weekly newsmagazine, NBC last week unveiled its new series, The Name of the Game (Fridays, 8:30-10 p.m., E.D.T.). The show is all about People, a hard-hitting mag staffed with the hard est-hitting newshawks since Steve Wil son and Lorelei Kilbourne cleaned up Big Town...
...David Ross. In the first program, Ross got his work done without resorting to brutality and heman seductions; he impersonated a millionaire gambler in an effort to trap a crooked cardplayer. Ross exposed the cheater and departed, having provided the viewer with a provocative glimpse of a cutthroat poker game. That's all, and that's enough...
...well as playing polo before the cameras. Winthrop and Snow Jr. also started for the regular Myopia Polo squad which swept the New England polo title last weekend. The other half of the championship squad will play for the special Myopia team in Sunday's game...
Ananis' absence in Saturday's game leaves Coach John Yovicsin without an experienced cornerback. Neil Hurley, a junior who spent most of last year on the Varsity B squad, will fill in the left corner position and another junior, Jim Higgins, will replace Ananis...