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...Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, hardly evokes the poetic resonance of the Golden Gate Bridge, its famous sister across the water to the west. And even though the Bay Bridge is six months older and, at 8 1/4 miles, almost four times as long as its glamorous relative, the span received only small change to celebrate its 50th birthday: $70,000, vs. a projected $6 million to be lavished on the Golden Gate next May. Still, the connection between the San Francisco peninsula and the East Bay, crossed by 250,000 autos a day, helped transform once distant rural areas into...
Didn't Reagan and Clint Eastwood play more demanding roles? The ratings that Fred Grandy used to get as Gopher, the shambling, befuddled purser on Love Boat, will undoubtedly be better than those he gets on C-Span. The latest Republican ex-actor in Washington won a narrow congressional race in Iowa, despite criticism that he too lately sailed back into his native port...
American Cable Systems, Cambridge's local cable company, will assist C-SPAN by providing some camera and lighting equipment during the events and show the IOP events on their station, which is available only to Cambridge viewers...
During the University's 350th anniversary this summer, C-SPAN videotaped eight symposia at the Kennedy School, some of which will air Thanksgiving weekend, Katz said. "It was at this time that we established a very good working relationship with the people up there," Katz said...
...never welcomed commercial television stations into the forum because, "with commercial stations come commercial interests," such as trying to popularize the discussions, Bograd said. "C-SPAN is a different issue altogether," he said...