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Salt taxes variously solidified or helped dissolve the power of governments. For centuries the French people were forced to buy all their salt from royal depots. The gabelle, or salt tax, was so high during the reign of Louis XVI that it became a major grievance and eventually helped ignite the French Revolution. As late as 1930, in protest against the high British tax on salt in India, Mahatma Gandhi led a mass pilgrimage of his followers to the seaside to make then-own salt...
...that all the anticipation and palaver of Super Bowl XVI is past, and sports on TV are reduced to what Red Smith dismissingly called the "back and forth" games of basketball and hockey, it becomes possible to talk more sensibly about sport's real place in television...
...SOUP 25?-and asked to buy the sign itself. With it a politician's name could be inserted in the slots of the menu board and photographed in no time at all. Though news was prestigious, sports made the big profits ($10 million for CBS on Super Bowl XVI) and got the big budgets. Out of sports' costly innovativeness have come instant replay, slow motion, the isolated camera, the reverse-action camera, stop action-devices that news broadcasts put to vivid use in covering the assassination attempts on President Reagan and the Pope...
...network aired an interview with an insider who admitted that the automotive industry's long history as one of pro football's leading sponsors played a role in Detroit's selection as the site of Super Bowl XVI...
Nine of the 27 top-rated programs in television history are Super Bowls, and when the ratings are in, number XVI is likely to take its place among the top money-making events ever...