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...been removed, but they are being replaced rapidly by new and equally rock-hard concrete. In addition, new steel beams and freshly painted seat numbers will complement the work now being done by mammoth cranes, which dangle the cement tonnage far above the field and then gently drop each segment into place...
...people gather for "The Greatest Single-Day Sporting Event In The World," the Indy 500. Officially the race doesn't have a name. it is the only event held at the Indianapolis Motor Speed-way each year, and the tickets say simply, "500 mile race." But to a large segment of the American auto-racing world and any proud Hoosier, it doesn't need a name. It is simply. The Race...
Over a two-day period Israeli planes hit at 50 different sites across southern Lebanon. At one point, the jets reportedly blew up a 500-yd. segment of the main road that connects Beirut with the south, effectively blocking the passage of Lebanese refugees seeking escape from the relentless bombings. Israeli gunships off the southern Lebanese coast joined the attack by shelling the village of Ras el Rin and the Palestinian refugee camp at Rashidiyeh, near the Israeli border. Just outside Damur, south of Beirut, more than 20 mutilated bodies lay strewn across the road. On the route to Sidon...
...effort has been ABC's Viewpoint, a live discussion among correspondents, aggrieved news subjects and members of a studio audience. The show has probed ABC's relations with business and the White House and has confronted broader questions of accuracy, responsibility and taste-often bluntly. In a segment last October, a woman in Dallas told Barbara Walters that she "comes across in interviews as being almost rude...
...biggest weakness, one discussed on every episode of Viewpoint to date: obsession with the "visually sensational." Seconded Jennings: "The producers in New York say, 'You have got to have bang-bang [pictures of violence].' That is a sad rule." Yet Viewpoint introduced its Middle East segment with shot after shot of bang-bang, some of it several years old. And Laurence, who works in London, reported the unremarkable results of a poll of American viewers' attitudes toward foreign reporting while he stood in front of a prototypically familiar but irrelevant visual symbol, the Houses of Parliament...