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...utter relief to seething anger at the combination of forces that had exposed them to such danger. Declared Middletown . Resident Ann Martin, who felt her past belief in the safety of the plant had been betrayed: "They ought to make sure that thing never opens again. They should knock it down and give the island back to the kids and the fishermen...
Lean and tall at 147-lbs., Simms, the man they called the Scorpion, baited the more stocky Ramos with stuff left leads and quick counter-punching jabs. Early in round two, Simms staggered his opponent repeatedly, but could but knock him out. The judges gave the local fighter a unanimous verdict by scores...
...evening's only knock-out came in the 139-1b. class, when New York's Bobby Francis landed a right and left combination on Felix (Perez) Almonte's gut, then connected on a crushing roundhouse left hook to floor the Bostonian. The referee stopped the bout with 15 seconds left in the first round...
...networks claw and kick for audiences Feb. 11, 1979, was not a date that most people remembered much past Feb. 11, 1979. But to the hundred or so top people in the television industry, it was Black Sunday, the costliest night in TV history. In their desperation to knock out one another during the February sweeps-those weeks when Nielsen and Arbitron take an elaborate TV census-the networks spent a reported $13 million on that Sunday night to throw their heaviest punches at one another. CBS led off with Gone With the Wind; NBC followed with One Flew Over...
...February sweeps, nearly every night was a blockbusting Sunday, a succession of multimillion-dollar explosions from the networks. Viewers were both delighted and frustrated, but what the TV schedule really showed was an industry in chaos, with each network going all out to knock off the other two. The pyrotechnics from CBS included Rocky, the Grammy Awards show and Marathon Man. NBC fired off James Michener's Centennial, Backstairs at the White House, a six-hour remake of From Here to Eternity, American Graffiti and The Sound of Music. ABC, which now rules the ratings charts, disdained such vulgar...