Word: telecasters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prospect of that match in any location was enough to make promoters clamor. Only one seemed to have the inside track: Robert Arum, Ali's lawyer and the president of Top Rank, Inc., a closed-circuit TV company that has always telecast Ali's fights. To Arum's astonishment, he was quietly outmaneuvered by Don King. Since being paroled from prison in 1971, King had put together a small stable of fighters. He had also had a run-in with Arum over TV rights in Ohio for the second Ali-Frazier fight...
Instead, the Soviet spokesmen had a triple-barreled explanation for what did Nixon in: he was 1) victimized by a Democratic Congress, 2) weakened by inflation and 3) finished off by "brainwashing" of the U.S. public by the media. Excerpts from the Moscow telecast...
...newest and most luxurious passenger liner, the" Queen Elizabeth 2, was nearly torpedoed by an Egyptian submarine as the liner plowed through the Mediterranean with 590 Jewish passengers going to Israel's 25th anniversary celebrations in April 1973. Only his own intervention, Sadat said during an interview telecast over the BBC in London, aborted the attack...
Consequently, the May 17 California telecast of police attacking a houseful of Symbionese Liberation Army members was a special occasion. It was special because the police did not take the normal security precaution of cordoning off the block on which shooting would take place. They clearly believed that so little public sympathy for the SLA existed that nothing they could do to destroy the SLA would cast the police or FBI in a bad light even if covered on live television. Moreover, they must have believed that permitting the neighborhood--and the country--to see the battle would teach...
...Check. The second sentence did refer, albeit a bit ambiguously, to Nixon. Post Staff Writer Tim O'Brien, watching the telecast, apparently misheard Goldwater's reference to Truman. Fastening on the last mention of Nixon, O'Brien wrote his story...