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...javelin to beat Jane Frederick's American heptathlon record of 6,803 points. She hoists her last throw too high. It noses up, catches air and falls short. There is no time to brood; she has an 800-meter run to get through. Less than an hour later, tiring, she squeezes out a win in this last competition--a gaudy seven victories out of seven events. And though her point total of 6,718 leaves her 85 short of Frederick's mark, the victory can be read as a foreshadow of the Seoul Olympics in the summer...
...temple of broadcast journalism, Sept. 24, 1968, deserves to be chiseled in marble. On that night, a television news show patterned after print magazines premiered on CBS. Instead of devoting its hour to one subject, the program offered a blend of serious stories and light features. Instructive and entertaining at the same time, it climbed its way into television's Top Ten shows, earning several hundred million dollars in profits and destroying the dictum that TV news cannot draw viewers and money. Its name, of course, is 60 Minutes...
Network executives still lie awake at night dreaming of ways to duplicate that glorious feat. This month two of those visions are having their debuts: NBC's American Almanac premieres this week and CBS's West 57th next week.[*] Both magazine shows last an hour, but they have little else in common. In style and approach, the programs are as different as, say, a hip teenager and his slightly stolid...
...John's urging, Arthur said, that he got a job at VSE, a defense contractor in Chesapeake, Va., involved in ship maintenance, where he had access to classified material. He passed two documents to John and got $6,000 for each, he said. "It was my happy-hour money," he explained. "I bought some stuff ... a gas grill, a new hair piece, brakes...
...used." But there were no buses to take the mourners to the cemetery. Tutu pleaded with the colonel for buses. Otherwise, he warned, the crowd might turn ugly and there would be bloodshed. The colonel said he could not promise enough transportation. The standoff continued for almost an hour, with the tension rising steadily. Finally, after an hour of weapons drawn and whips at the ready, six blue-and-cream Daveyton buses drew up near the tent. There were cheers and snouts as the crowd made its way onto the vehicles...