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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seizing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to inject new life into the city core, San Antonio has dredged out a short waterway linking the fair to the San Antonio River and threaded the 92.6-acre HemisFair site itself with a network of canals. It has refurbished its heritage by restoring 24 fine 19th century Victorian houses on the fairgrounds, and the area adjacent bristles with new construction, including the 445-room Hilton Palacio Del Rio, which overlooks HemisFair from the bank of the San Antonio River...
...moments of national drama Americans stop their lives and turn on their televison sets. Last week, when President Johnson announced that he would not run for reelection, the network political experts were as flummoxed as the viewers. But four nights later, when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated television was in total command. Clearly, TV newscasters are not yet up to snap punditry; but they have mastered the art of reflecting events when dramatic action breaks...
Balanced Footage. Back in Manhattan, secretaries and vice presidents and every newsman in town, including CBSs John Laurence, on home leave from Viet Nam, poured into the network headquarters. As ABC-TV News Veep Bill Sheehan put it,"a lot of union rules went out the window" as staffers fell to without regard for jurisdistional niceties. ABC's three-man orbituary unit hastily updated its canned footage on King, and CBS's Charles Kuralt narrated a 20-minute pretaped orbituary covering King from childhood...
Hitler's Rage. Jesse Owens Returns to Berlin, syndicated by Sports Network Inc., stirringly recalled the Summer Olympics of 1936. There was chilling footage showing more than 100,000 fans hailing Adolf Hitler as the games were opened. The test was on for the Nazis' myth of the master race. Closeups caught the Führer clucking with pleasure as his Aryans competed in the qualifying heats against the U.S. team with its Negro stars. But then in the finals, as Owens, the Alabama sharecropper's son, won one, two, three and finally four gold medals...
...Office Clout. Newman's official title at NBC is "critic at large." Over the network's New York City channel, he reviews opera and theater, and commands a respectable following. One recognition of Newman's box-office clout is that Producer David Merrick, who calls him "the undertaker," tried to bar him from the theater and demanded equal time to answer an embalming review. This was a characteristic Merrick publicity ploy, but then Merrick judged his adversary shrewdly...