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It would be simpler to grant a city franchise to one of the dozens of companies in the booming cable industry and let them develop and sell the service -- a pattern followed in most American communities with cable.
Under the commission's proposal, a city telecommunications authority--as divorced as possible from city politics--would be set up to oversee the operation of the system. It would grant the franchise to a firm agreeing to meet tight specifications, and then monitor the company to assure compliance. Sakey said...
In 1960, when the Eagles last played for an N.F.L. championship, there was no Super Bowl, the A.F.L. was in its first season, and the indestructible Chuck Bednarik was on the field for the full 60 minutes, playing center on offense and linebacker on defense. The Eagles won their game...
But the drama on-field has been tame compared with Davis' off-field actions. He tried to shift his franchise last spring to the more commodious Los Angeles Coliseum, but N.F.L. owners refused to ap prove the move. Angry at being spurned after ten straight years of sell-out...
DIED. Harland Sanders, 90, the goateed "colonel" who founded the Kentucky Fried Chicken fast-food chain, which now has 6,000 outlets in 48 countries; of pneumonia; in Louisville. Sanders ran a popular restaurant in rural Corbin, Ky., for 27 years before setting out in 1956 in his trademark white...