Word: breakaways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Breakaway Biafra. The essay topics are rarely hard-news musts, and never flunk the Rooney colon test. Andy says he can spot an overly sober TV treatise merely by the colon in its title; for ex ample, "Somaliland: Case History of a People," His specialty is the light TV essay that extracts the significant from the commonplace. Does it bother him that Reasoner gets all the glory and earns about $200,000 compared with his $60,000? "Harry has never actually sent me for coffee," Andy jokes, "but he often says, 'If you're going to the cafeteria...
...very often, and that passes for good on television." The straight news shows, he says, are the worst, although he concedes that "distinguished writing there might be obtrusive." Be cause of lack of tiniw, he feels, news writ ers get away with a shorthand glossary of minor cliches like "breakaway Biafra" or "oil-rich Kuwait...
...next day Brezhnev added the Soviet voice to the anti-Chinese chorus. In a bitter speech the Soviet party boss warned that the Chinese were preparing to start a war and charged that "the damage caused by the breakaway activities of Peking to the common cause of Communists cannot be underestimated." Said he: "The practical activities of Peking in the international arena more and more convince us of the fact that China has actually broken with proletarian internationalism and lost its class Socialist content." It sounded as if the Soviets had decided after all to press on with their original...
...Ufer and Brian Bird to beat Harvard goalie Bruce Durno. Harvard counter-attacked at 6:45 when junior George McManama took a Chris Gurry pass and rammed the puck past Yale goalie Steve Holahan. The Crimson took the lead in the third period when Dwight Ware scored on a breakaway with assists to Skip Freeman and Chip Otness...
Yale tied up the game at 2-2 with three minutes remaining in the game when Ufer scored after a scramble in front of Durno. Holahan, who made 34 stops in the game, prevented a Harvard victory when he stopped sophomore Steve Owen's breakaway in the closing minutes of the game...