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Transworld International, which represented the Ivy League, is a recognized leader in the sports television industry. It represented the city of Calgary, Alberta in negotiations for rights to broadcast the 1968 Winter Olympics. The $309 million contract with ABC was the largest television sports contract ever signed. Transworld is currently representing Seoul, South Korea, which will host the 1968 Summer Olympics in similar negotiations...
Harvard. Cambridge's largest landlord, opposes the measure. In a brief filed with the council, the University stated that the measure "would probably result in an unconstitutional infringement" of its rights...
...passes at the next City Council meeting, scheduled for August 13, the ordinance would affect several currently vacant properties, including the largest, Craigie Arms...
Shirer's autobiographical narrative threads in and out of the chaos in a remarkable manner. Some of the recollections are simply good journalistic yarns, such as the one about flying with Göring and Aviator Charles Lindbergh in what was claimed to be the world's largest aircraft, a cumbersome, eight-engine passenger plane recently built for Lufthansa. "Göring turned over the controls to Lindbergh somewhere above the Wannsee, and we were treated to some fancy rolls, steep banks and other maneuvers for which the Goliath machine was not designed. I thought...
DIED. Enrico Berlinguer, 62, secretary-general since 1972 of Italy's Communist Party (P.C.I.), the largest and most influential in the Western world, and builder of "Eurocommunism," a Western democratic Marxism; of a stroke; in Padua, Italy...