Word: majority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pope's good-natured and forceful personality. "It was the greatest success any foreign leader has ever scored in Mexico," a local journalist noted. Besides being a public relations coup, the tour had had its substantive side. For it was the occasion of John Paul's first major policy speech, on the agonizing question of Christianity and social revolution...
...climbed aboard Father Duffy last Thursday, Boy Wonder Steve Cauthen, 18, winner of the Triple Crown and just under $5 million last year, had not won a race since New Year's Day. His losing streak of 110 straight races, one of the worst ever for a major jockey, was a stupefying slump for The Kid who once won 23 of 54 races in a single week...
...Cauthen off Affirmed, the horse he rode to the Triple Crown last year. Horsemen do not show slumping jockeys quite the paternal support that Leo Durocher, manager of the old New York Giants, gave a weeping rookie named Willie Mays after he had gone 1 for 26 in his major league debut ("Tomorrow's another day, kid, and you're going to be playing centerfield tomorrow"). Barrera said the decision not to let Cauthen ride Affirmed in the $200,000 Strub Stakes was "one of my hardest." But he earlier confessed, "You know what race-track people...
Easy enough to pick a quarrel with a show like Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll: Where are Sam Cooke and the Drifters? Why not Van Morrison, Jackson Browne and Creedence Clearwater Revival? But the show gets all the major points straight and covers a lot of territory without stinting on either energy or spirit. Heroes will also be an eye-opener for kids whose idea of the '50s is a lot of chorus boys in black-leather jackets. For those with longer memories, this is less an occasion for reminiscence than for celebration...
...major organizational fault of the current system is that it virtually assures conflict between the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is a kind of guardian of federal funds, and the Public Broadcasting Service, which represents the individual stations. There is wholesale duplication of effort, and far too big a percentage of the TV budget is spent on administration rather than on programming. The CPB, whose members are appointed by the President, is overly sensitive to prevailing political winds, moreover. There is always a danger that a determined President will try to influence public television for his own purposes, as Richard...