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Brandon Tartikoff s ideas do not always follow such a smooth path to success, but no one is more entitled to celebrate. For nearly five years the boyish but driven president of NBC Entertainment has been trying to write a happy ending for one of the longest-running sob stories in TV history. Season in, season out, NBC rethought its strategy, retooled its schedule, introduced a slew of new shows-and wound up, as usual, deep in the ratings cellar. Asked early this fall if he had anything else to throw in if his new schedule fizzled, Tartikoff replied...
...parents do so on their behalf. In Baby Fae's case what kind of consent did they give? If her parents thought that the operation might save their child (i.e., that it was therapeutic), they were misled. There was no scientific evidence to support that claim. The longest previous human survival with a heart xenograft was 3½ days. (Baby Fae lived 17 more.) The longest animal survival in Dr. Bailey's own studies was 165 days...
Then holders of the longest active winning streak in collegiate swimming history. Harvard dropped more meets in a single weekend last year--two to be exact--than it had dropped in the six previous years combined...
...year to the day after the Navy men's swimming team ended Harvard's string of 32 consecutive victories the then-longest active winning streak in collegiate swimming history--the Crimson yesterday pummelled the visiting Midshipmen, 89-24, in one of the most lopsided Crimson wins in recent history...
...Marino's touchdown passes were short ones. The longest was a 12-yarder to tight end Bruce Hardy that tied the record with 4:11 left in the third period and gave Miami a 28-17 lead...