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With nine quarterbacks in contention and the top four or five still neck and neck, Restic decided to wait until today to saddle one of them with the dubious honor of going head-to-head with Witkowski...
...five years, the usual period before they go into syndication. That would prevent networks from withholding shows from the market. And they have no say in when or where the syndicated programs are aired. In many U.S. cities, syndicated M*A*S*H programs run head-to-head with, say, the CBS Evening News, winning audiences and advertiser dollars from network programs. By 1990, two commissioners said, even that regulatory vestige should be dropped, and the networks should be able to control the syndication of some programs...
...Walter Cronkite of CBS has been the only first-stringer at any network to hold the job to retirement age. Last week the industry shook its kaleidoscope once again. What seemed to be emerging, by week's end, was a pattern that American viewers have hardly ever seen: head-to-head, half-hour competition among solo anchors at all three commercial networks...
Despite the line-up adjustments, every one of the netmen has made it to the quarterfinal round of the singles contest Members of the Yale and Brown squads have done the same, but the Crimson has beaten both the Elis and Bruins in head-to-head competition this season. Harvard brought the tourney cup to Cambridge last year, but Yale has won the last four of six years, so Yale is favored in seeding categories and to win the cup this year...
...each other on the Bruins' ice. "I guess one of the things about the tourney then," remembers Harvard women's hockey Coach John Dooley, who played in three Beanpots for B.U., "was that we didn't have the great national diversity that there is now. We'd be going head-to-head with some of our good friends we'd grown up with. After the tournament, we'd always go out and celebrate. Now, it's like a reunion, seeing all those guys again...