Word: gifford
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seen such a tumult over timbering since the great conservationist Gifford Pinchot took on bureaucrats and lumber barons at the turn of the century. On one side are the U.S. Forest Service and the $57 billion-a-year wood-products industry. Opposing them is a coalition of environmental groups. At stake: how the nation's 183 million acres of federally owned forest should be managed-including how much timber should be taken out of them...
...like a studio assembled in New York, broken down for shipment, and put back together in Innsbruck. Then they assigned American sportscasters who act as if they knew nothing about winter sports to cover the events with only the help of some former participants, whom they title "experts." Frank Gifford, ex-New-York-Giants pro football player and connoisseur of Super Bowls, commented on the Olympic downhill race: "Look at all those people flocking to the slopes. You know, this event is the Super Bowl of Austria." Werner Wolf, former small town broadcaster, explained speed skating distances: "This...
...Glynn lifts the weights, while Hilary watches hers." (As if any skater did not work out with weights.) And it was an embarrassing contrast between the women's speed skating and the men's downhill skiing. Henning and Wolf were calling 24 and 27 year old women "girls" while Gifford was titling 20-year-old Franz Klammer the "men's downhill champion...
...television spectators will benefit from the 45 cameras positioned throughout the area. ABC, which paid about $8 million for broadcast rights, will put Sportscasters Curt Gowdy, Jim McKay and Frank Gifford plus Pierre Salinger behind microphones...
...mistake then, maybe, to violate Hough's softspoken-ness by attributing to him the perception of the detective-martyr, the guardian, as the Christian who reveals society. Maybe it is better to take Gifford on his own humble terms, as a gentle and kind man with an interesting story. But Hough has dropped too many hints here, or made too many mistakes, by endowing this man with such astounding parcels of innocence and responsibility, as to make such a conclusion inevitable...