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...been under fire since the War of 1812. At the Mexico City Olympics, black athletes greeted it with a Black Power salute. In Munich, the mode was elaborate indifference. Last week The Star-Spangled Banner was again the center of a brief, ludicrous controversy at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. There, the director of the U.S. Olympic Invitational Track Meet announced that it would not be played at the event. Thereupon the Garden switchboard lit up like a scoreboard. After receiving "irate calls from all over the country," the meet officials set a new indoor record for backpedaling. They...
...American Presidential campaigns rarely rise above the level of polite name-calling and Madison Avenue sloganeering...
Wald, 41, brings considerable experience to the post (at 35 he was managing editor of the New York Herald Tribune). His handling of NBC's $100 million annual news budget will get close scrutiny, both from Madison Avenue and competitors. "We'll make changes," Wald said, "but not immediately." As if to stress the amicable nature of the change in command, he summoned a quip for his first day on the job: "I plan to continue in the grand tradition of American journalism, and I'll figure out tomorrow what that...
Boston Bruin defenseman Bobby Orr was the only unanimous choice yesterday in the balloting for the National Hockey League East Division All-Star team, which will face the West January 30 in Madison Square Garden...
Since the U.S. has no official royalty, its leaders try to compensate by crowning their Presidents amid as much hoopla as they can devise. James and Dolley Madison set the tone back in 1809 with the first official inaugural ball in Washington-at $4 per couple...