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...active support. Four months later, GM announced that it would invest $6 million and form a subsidiary of its own. (Gerstenberg eventually put up another $6 million.) With Ford Motor as the managing partner, legions of other megacorporations pitched into Ren Cen as limited partners: Allied Chemical, Amoco, Burroughs, Goodyear, Gulf & Western, Kresge...
...plot revolves around a terrorist scheme by the Palestinian Black September group (Munich Olympics, 1972) to murder a stadium full of football fans at the Super Bowl, 1978, by simultaneously shooting 80,000 steel darts into the bleachers from the underbelly of the Goodyear blimp. The political motives of the principals involved, although necessarily handled mostly as a premise for suspense, are carefully presented so no-one can take credit as a sympathetic protagonist. Bruce Dern, as an ex-POW who was court-marshalled for making a film commending the North Vietnamese cause during his capture and has gotten nothing...
...images go, you can't beat it: the Goodyear blimp suddenly looming large and low-much too low-over the Orange Bowl. To turn that benign and stately symbol of the country in a holiday mood into an instrument of unpredictable menace is a stroke of Pop-cult genius. If the blimp can run amuck, even in fantasy, what is there left that we can rely...
...massive force of personnel and about $5 million worth of equipment: 165 people, 14 of whom?headed by Curt Gowdy and Don Meredith?will appear on home screens; twenty-one cameras, 16 of them the full-size "hard" variety, three handheld, one in a helicopter and one in the Goodyear blimp; five slow-motion "discs" for replays, and a vidifont, a computer-like machine that can instantaneously cough up players' names and statistics. Add to that three miles of video cable, 3½ miles of audio cable, 65 microphones and 100 monitors, then plug everything into 15 giant trailer trucks...
...came after a 70-hour bargaining marathon, when union negotiators and Firestone agreed to a new pay package giving workers a 36% increase in wages and benefits over three years. The Firestone agreement, which will set the pattern for the other struck members of rubber's Big Four (Goodyear, Goodrich and Uniroyal), will boost the industry's average hourly wage in the first year by 880, to $6.38 an hour. In addition, the rubber workers got an escalator that provides an extra 1? an hour for each .4% increase in the cost of living index...