Word: koppel
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...team unwittingly let the country look inside him, and inside the game, to see plainly that the line still exists. Los Angeles Dodgers Vice President Al Campanis, 70, a former minor-league shortstop when Robinson was a second baseman in Montreal, was questioned by ABC Nightline Anchor Ted Koppel about the utter absence of black managers and general managers and the uniform dearth of black executives in what is billed as the great American pastime. Campanis replied, "I truly believe that they may not have some of the necessities to be, let's say, a field manager, or perhaps...
Though appalled, Koppel offered Campanis several shovels for digging himself out, but he just kept piling on the dirt. "Why are black men, or black people, not good swimmers? Because they don't have the buoyancy." Within 24 hours Campanis apologized, but within 48 he was fired by the Dodgers, possibly < at the urging of Commissioner Peter Ueberroth. "Our record is certainly not good in this area," Ueberroth admitted...
...believe it's prejudice," Campanis told Ted Koppel, the host of the ABC-TV show. "I truly believe they [Blacks] may not have some of the necessities to be, let's say, a field manager or perhaps a general manager. So it just might be--why Black men, or Black people, are not good swimmers? They just don't have the buoyancy...
...very long line. In New York, for instance, the Friday edition of his late-night talk show does not air until Monday. Then a viewer has to outlast an ABC Monday-night football game that usually wraps up after midnight, a half-hour local newscast, Nightline with Ted Koppel and Nightlife with David Brenner before Breslin's mug finally appears on the screen, somewhere around 2 a.m. The graveyard shift has so annoyed Breslin that he complained about it in a New York Daily News column, implying that he will give up the show...
...Tonight show's permanent guest host last spring, has just launched her own syndicated talk show, telecast live at 11 p.m. EST and currently seen on 99 stations. Brenner's Nightlife, another syndicated entry, is now in its second month on 108 stations. ABC, meanwhile, has enlivened the post-Koppel hours with a pair of newcomers: The Dick Cavett Show on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and Jimmy Breslin's People on Thursdays and Fridays. Linda Ellerbee is expected to join them starting in January. Even CBS, which has traditionally settled for reruns after the local news, has refurbished its late-night...