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Broadcasters have long viewed cable television as a dangerous upstart that could threaten the industry's huge profits. But the Federal Communications Commission last week opened the way to more home-video competition by freeing cable TV from most of the last remaining tangles of Government regulation that had once restrained its operation...
McEnroe, it seems, drilled one of his booming southpaw serves past a flatfooted Connors. The T.V. cameras clearly showed that the ball landed well within the prescribed box, but, inexplicably, the serve was termed a fault. Young McEnroe (who but two years ago was Young Upstart McEnroe) struck the hallowed Centre Court grass with his racket and stormed to the sidelines, unwilling to continue lest the rest of his future efforts meet with similar results. At first, the man in the high chair tried reason; "Mr. McEnroe will resume play," he intoned. When that failed, he turned to humiliation. "This...
...made his first big hit, Shop Around, when he was 20. It launched Robinson, the group he helped form, the Miracles, and the upstart Detroit record company that released it on a wing and a prayer, Motown. In the decades since Smokey passed along some tuneful romantic advice ("My mama told me/ You better shop around"), Motown changed from a phenomenon to a corporation. Smokey became vice president of artist relations. He named his son Berry after his friend Berry Gordy Jr., founder of Motown, and christened his daughter Tamla after the Motown subsidiary for which Smokey still records. When...
...awesome raw power this spring in thundering to impressive victories over MIT, Dartmouth, BU, NU, Princeton, Cornell and Yale. But at the Eastern Sprints championships on Connecticut's Lake Waramug, the heavies' comeback effort fell just short and they wound up second a fraction of a second behind an upstart Penn boat...
They ripped powerful Wisconsin. They left neighboring MIT, defending champ Yale and archrival Princeton staring into their Wake. But all that proved little consolation to the Radcliffe heavies yesterday, as upstart Penn stole the national crown from under Black and White oars by a fraction of a second...