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...minutes to an hour; Saturday Night Live was at death's door; and Tom Snyder and Rona Barrett spent as much time engaging in star wars with each other as tending to their duties on Tomorrow. Affiliate stations were deserting. Executives moved through NBC headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza as if on a guided tour. The bottom line dropped out just before Silverman did. In 1980, when ABC earned $301 million and CBS $249 million, NBC'S profits were a pitiful $75 million-half the earnings of 1977, the year before Silverman arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Fred Finally Comes A-Cropper | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

...meeting opened on a note of scarcely tolerable grief as the participants huddled in the vast plaza of Yad Vashem, the Jerusalem documentation center dedicated to Holocaust victims. In tears, they watched a sound-and-light show of the German conquest of Europe and of the eventual liberation, the sound track hammering home the pounding of Luftwaffe bombs. Whipped by a cold wind, the survivors broke into songs like I Believe, sung by their relatives on the way to the gas chambers. The group then recited the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Commemorating the Holocaust | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

...meantime, gay Harvard graduates have established alumni associations in Boston, New York and San Francisco, and are now forming chapters in Atlanta, Houston and Washington, D.C. The associations congregated in Boston's Park Plaza Hotel last week to plan the creation of a tax-exempt foundation that would supply tens of thousands of dollars to gay student organizations for educational activities like GLAD Days. They are also talking of setting up scholarships for gay students who have been disowned by their parents, and of funding an endowed chair in gay studies at Harvard. One gay alumnus. Toby Marotta, will soon...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Gay Rights: The Emergence of a Student Movement | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

This morning the city of Boston will roast its latest favorite sons the 1980-81 National Basketball Association champion Celtics, with Boston Celtics' Day highlighted by a parade at 11 a.m. The procession will start at the Park Plaza Hotel and finish up in front of City Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Honors Celts Today | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

...Monday afternoon most of the miners were dead, and the survivors either fled to the hills or houses in Villa Carmen. Army troops pursued them and killed some men in their homes, arrested and tortured others and bayonetted many. They also decapitated the wounded. In the middle of the plaza they put dynamite in the mouth of one miner and blew him to pieces . . . They whipped children with cables and made them eat gun powder. They made young people lie down on broken glass and forced us to walk over them; afterwards the soldiers marched over them. At dawn...

Author: By Charles R. Hale, | Title: Resistance to the Bolivian Coup: A Personal Account | 5/7/1981 | See Source »

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