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...tightest Senate races is in Florida,where a late-hour poll showed a virtual dead heatbetween Democratic Rep. Buddy MacKay andRepublican Rep. Connie Mack for the seat beingvacated by Democratic Sen. Lawton Chiles...
...late-hour mission, the U.N. Ambassador was dispatched to win the backing of U.S. allies for a raid...
...clock nears 8 along the Eastern Seaboard on Tuesday night, a strange new phenomenon takes place in U.S. urban life. Business falls off in many a nightclub, theater-ticket sales are light, neighborhood movie audiences thin. Some late-hour shopkeepers post signs and close up for the night. In Manhattan, diners at Lindy's gulp their after-dinner coffee and call for their checks as they did in the days of the Roosevelt fireside chats. On big-city bar rails along the coast and in the Midwest, there is hardly room for another foot. For the next hour, wherever...
...when he was only 27, and has been persuasive if cerebral as a London-based coanchor; since he shifted to Washington July 4 as a substitute for Reynolds, ABC ratings have rebounded. Ted Koppel is both happy and, in ABC'S view, all but indispensable at the late-hour interview show Nightline. White House Correspondent Sam Donaldson is combative and abrasive. The other anchor in the current format, Chicago-based Max Robinson, never caught on with ABC executives and has been told he will be reassigned. The fact that Robinson is black creates diplomatic problems...
...turmoil. Yet during the weeks of Franco's illness most Spaniards seemed determined to go on with business as usual-except for an unusual interest in radio bulletins and newspaper headlines. Last week the bullrings and soccer stadiums were packed, as were the tapas bars of old Madrid. Late-hour diners filled restaurants, feasting on steaming plates of garlic chicken and stuffed squid swimming in its own black ink. Long queues formed outside cinemas featuring The Towering Inferno, and a Beethoven concert series played to sellout houses. Traffic blocked the capital's streets and tourists swarmed through hotel...