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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...older I get the more the old adage comes true about how you've got to be strong up the middle," Nahigian said in Briggs Cage the other...
...Appailing" is the word he uses to describe the coverage of the Montreal games. He says ABC had "the emphasis on the wrong kinds of things. It was all surface. You never got to know much about the athletes, you never got to know anything about any of the sports. They missed a great opportunity to get the American public to participate. They weren't encouraging that at all, but rather trying to make bureaus out of people...
...NATO nations, regard such discussions as academic. They know the joy they stir. Holland's "Brother Andrew" of Open Doors, the man who pioneered smuggling in 1957, tells of running a vanload of Russian-language Bibles into Czechoslovakia in 1968, surrounded by invading Soviet tanks. Later he got a letter from a mother in the Soviet Union: "Thank you for giving our son a Bible when he was occupying Czechoslovakia...
...there was an age when interest in professional team sports meant baseball, period. Pro football, basketball and hockey were in varying stages of infancy or awkward adolescence. The date was still far in the future when ABC Sports would rush in a TV camera crew every time three starlets got up on skateboards. Baseball reigned coast-to-river, with St. Louis as its Western outpost, but the entire country knew it as the only game in town...
...wheedled his way into singing at a local Kansas City club: "The man who owned the joint . . . asked me how old I was, and I told him twenty, and he looked at me and said, 'Your mama know where you are?' " The irrepressible octogenarian Alberta Hunter, who got her start as a singer in Chicago "sporting houses," once got on the wrong side of Ethel Waters: "I guess I outsang her, because she put everything but the kitchen stove...