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...MEMORABLE MOMENT] Bob Costas' acrid tone of voice when introducing the show: "This is the single proudest moment of my life...
...assume that Case, Levin, Ted Turner and Bob Pittman are the benign presences they appear to be. The problem has to do with putting the structure in place now for what will certainly happen later. It has to do with what media critic Ben Bagdikian prophesied more than a decade ago: that fewer and fewer corporations would come to dominate the media environment, resulting in the free-enterprise equivalent of a Ministry of Culture. It has to do with mega-communications conglomerates that are already bigger than the economies of countries whose monopolistic information policies we condemn as a violation...
...DIED. BOB LEMON, 79, unflappable Hall of Fame pitcher; in Long Beach, Calif. His sensational sinker catapulted the Cleveland Indians to victory in the 1948 World Series. A seven-time All-Star, Lemon signed a "lifetime contract" with the New York Yankees after managing them to a World Series...
...Hawkeye State. "This is exactly what he didn't want," says TIME political correspondent Eric Pooley, reporting from Iowa. The news emerged just when Bradley was waging an eleventh-hour comeback, in which he unleashed Daniel Patrick Moynihan to shore up the state's elderly vote and regional favorite Bob Kerrey to mobilize the party establishment. "Right when he needs to get messages across," says Pooley, "his heart condition is grabbing all of the headlines...
Daub also cited the Pfisters' determination to keep Kirkland House security guard Bob Butler, who had been with the House for 14 years, when the College was moving to hire outsourced security guards...