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...struck like a hammer. Once again, routines of everyday life were ruptured as millions of U.S. radio listeners, and an estimated 400 million TV viewers around the world, strained for further news from Rome. In the minutes that followed the first bulletin, CBS-TV, then ABC and NBC interrupted soap operas and game shows with special reports that echoed painfully in the memory. Journalists were dismayed by the similarity with the shooting of President Reagan just six weeks earlier. Said ABC-TV Anchorman Ted Koppel: "We have all too much experience with this kind of story...
...result was that ABC and CBS did not shift to continuous coverage until some two hours after the shooting; NBC kept airing soap operas, which it interrupted with news updates and longer accounts. Rather and Reynolds bracketed every report with cautionary qualifiers and apologetic explanations to viewers about the difficulties in getting the story. Said Rather: "There will be some conflicting information. We do our best to sort it out." By midafternoon, as John Paul underwent 5½ hr. of surgery, medical information grew sparse and anchormen were often hard-pressed for something useful to say. Soon even Rather...
...injuries, inadvertently showed a diagram of the female anatomy. There were some lapses in taste as well, though the most flagrant came from the public. Like sitcom and sports fans in earlier news crises, hundreds of viewers jammed TV station switchboards across the country to complain that their afternoon soap operas were interrupted. -By Janice Castro. Reported by Peter Ainslie and Robert Celine/New York, with other bureaus
...desire to win. He thinks he can do it better. He wants to give advice on the scouting, tell the minor league managers what to do, and he goes a little bit too far." Says Yankee Owner George Steinbrenner, whose differences with Martin constituted a four-year national soap opera until the two parted for good in 1979: "I'm happy he's in a situation now where he has complete latitude. That was never going to be the case with me." Counters Charlie Finley: "He's the best manager in baseball...
Carleton is just one of hundreds of schools that have begun to lure students with market research techniques like those used by soap and cigarette companies. Reason: tuition costs are skyrocketing and the nation's pool of 18-year-olds is shrinking (from 4.2 million in 1975 to an estimated 3.6 million...