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...models of perseverance and charisma, the Heidens have become towers of inspiration at home and pillars of diplomacy abroad. Win, place or show in Lake Placid, the Heidens rank at the top of living sports legends...
Heiden 's golden hoard and a hockey upset highlight the Lake Placid Games...
...hoisting of the five-ringed Olympic flag supposedly internationalizes a site, enfolding it in the pristine and timeless kingdom of sport. But the Winter Games at Lake Placid seemed to bear a distinctly American stamp, from the incredible hoard of gold in speed skating to the site itself, a pleasant little mountain town swamped by the world. The Games provided a kind of ritual relief during a troubled American moment, supplanting cold war fears with cheers for an ice hockey upset. Like all Olympics, the 13th Winter Games left a gallery of bright images on the retina...
...television news community howled?partly in laughter, partly in protest?when Arledge became president of ABC News in June 1977. (He remains president of ABC Sports and is executive producer of the Lake Placid Winter Olympics.) Journalists feared that he would bring game-show hype to the evening news, as described so chillingly in Paddy Chayefsky's 1976 movie Network. Arledge did little to allay those suspicions when, shortly after taking over, he devoted 19 minutes of one 22½-minute nightly newscast to a lurid account of the capture of an accused killer, the so-called...
...race to 15 meters; he is told to add another 1,485 meters at 6:30. Later, Kaplan tells Jarriel how he himself knew the difference. "I got a call from a redheaded fellow who cares about these things." Translation: News Head Roone Arledge had been watching in Lake Placid...