Word: telecasters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wearing a sheet and whispering, 'Ali-e-e-e-e, Ali-e-e-e-e.' I'll be the ghost that haunts boxing, and people will say Ali is the real champ and anyone else is a fake." Last week, at a telecast of the Frazier-Ellis fight in the Philadelphia Arena, Ali wasn't whispering. He shadowboxed in the aisle and wailed: "I want Frazier! I'm starting my comeback...
...march failed. The one million people who smilingly crushed each other on the Washington Monument mall were called 250,000 frolicking college kids on the front page of American newspapers. Football devotee Richard Nixon watched a great telecast in the middle of a half-mile circle of bumper-to-bumper buses and shoulder-to-shoulder D. C. cops. After the 250,000 people and 750.000 hallucinations in human form went home, Nixon turned off his television set and offered the country two more Middle American goodies. "Vietnamization." the process whereby those smart, tough G. I.'s teach those sweet, brown...
...Catch-22 award for military machination was earned this month after another Army newscaster clearly transgressed. Angered by the apparent pattern of intimidation, Specialist 5 Robert Lawrence blurted at the end of his regular telecast: "A newscaster at AFVN is not free to tell the truth." To a startled audience that included his commanding officer, Lieut. Colonel James Adams, he added: "We have been suppressed, and I'm probably in trouble for telling you tonight the truth...