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7 7 his July 16, 1976 The Post- Crescent Appleton-Neenah-Menasha, Wis. A-11 SporTView Olympics needs change Post-Crescent staff writer how The Olympics are a sportine, spectacular perfectly designed ABC. ABC bills itself as "the sports network" and NBC labels itself as the "live sports network." Is there a difference and possible that both can be true? NBC does have much more live televised sports so it can legitimately stake claim to the "live sports" title with some protestation from CBS. ABC, however, has built its reputation on the taped, closely edited "Wide World of Sports" and for its Olympic productions which are mostly taped and also well-edited. ABC does a good job on live telecasts although at times choosy viewers may find the network wanting, especially purists who object to the entertainment feature which Roone Arledge seems to favor.

ABC, which won honors plaudits for its coverage of the Olympic games in Munich in 1972, will again telecast the Summer Olympic Games from Montreal beginning Saturday with 1 the opening ceremonies. The Olympics are of such a wide scope and so overlapped in scheduling that the only way to cover them is via video-tape. Of course, ABC will offer a good deal of live coverage but the bulk of the approximately 80 air hours will be highlight telecasting. Seven Emmy Award winner Jim McKay will again be the pivotal figure around which ABC's telecasts will revolve. Howard Cosell, Chris Schenkel, Bill Flemming and Curt Gowdy will be other commentators with an enormous stable of experts adding their knowledge to the telecasts.

That's a pretty good start for Olympic coverage, although the Olympics itself has gotten off to another controversial, political, typical farce. The Olympics need to be changed or done away with. While it remains a pretty good athletic attraction, the sidelights have demeaned and overshadowed the participating athletes. Lee Leonard, commentator on NBC's "Grandstand," hit the nail on the head with his comments about the Olympic squable over Taiwan. There are two Olympics.

One for the demigods in blue and red coats who are incapable of competing but must have their say in the games are run, who can compete and how. And, then there are the athletes. The ones who make the Olympics worthwhile. These aren't verbatim quotes by Leonard but summarize his disgust with the Olympics as they are handled by the would-be Gods of Olympus. It is disgusting to the fans and athletes.

The Olympic Games have become political and are used by many countries as a political tool (a good case was put forth in a recent Sports Illustrated story about the East Germans). Taiwan was not allowed to participate in these games because athletes were representing "Nationalist China." The IOC (International OlymCommittee, a consisting of some 78 directors) ruled Taiwan athletes could compete, provided it was on an individual basis and not as a pre representative of their country. Almost as absurd was Tanzania's withdrawal from the games as a protest over New Zealand's playing South Africa in a rugby match. Certainly the only ones hurt by the protest were Tanzania's athletes, particularly Filbert Bayi, perhaps the world's top 1,500 meter runner. is time, past time really, that IOC clean its own house and put the Olympics in order.

The first step should be to return the games to participants and fans. Do away with the playing the national anthems and raising of flags when medals are presented to the athletes. Do away with the tote board of medals eurned by the various participating countries. Let's return the Olympics to a purely individual basis. Secondly, let's reorganize the IOC and its highly restrictive (mostly for democratic countries) and authoritarian policies.

It seems nearly impossible that a body which frowns on politics with the demeanor the IOC does is so politically oriented itself. With the state of sports, however, it is not surprising. It is time for the Olympics to change, and change drastically, or call it quits. Neither, however, is very likely. And the way things have been going the politics of the Olympics will only increase.

Television schedule GREEN BAY 38 WPNE PBS 2 WBAY CBS WAUSAU 5 WFRV NBC 7 WSAU CBS 11 WLUK ABC 9 WAOW ABC FRIDAY P.M. 5-Police Story SATURDAY A.M. Hour 6 p.m. 38-This Summer 5:30 a.m. 5-Land of the Lost 2-5-9-11-News 10 p.m.

2-Summer Semester 9-11-Superfriends 7-A Quest of Life 2-5-7-9-11-News 38-Sesame Street 38-Robert MacNeil 38-Book Beat 9:30 a.m. Report 6:45 a.m. 5-Run, Joe, Run 6:30 p.m. 2-Mary Hartman, 5-Davey and Goliath 10 a.m. AL 10:30 p.m.

2-Celebrity Sweep- Mary Hartman 7 a.m. 2-Far Out Space Nuts stakes 5-Tonight Show 2-7-Pebbles and 5-Return to the Planet a 5-Wild Kingdom 7-CBS Movie Bamm Bamm of the Apes 7-Flipper 9-11-Rookies 5-Emergency Four 7-Children's Bookshelf 9-To Tell the Truth 38-ABC Captioned 9-11-Hong Kong 9-11-Speed Buggy 11-Pat Boone the News Phooey 38-Electric Company Little Ones 38-Bridge with Jean 11 p.m. 7:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. Cox 2-Movie 2-7-Bugs Road 2-7-Ghost Busters 11:30 p.m.

Runner Hour 5-Westwind 7 p.m. 11-Rock Concert 5-Josie and the 9-11-Oddball Couple 2-7-Sara 11:37 p.m. Pussycats 38-Misterogers Neigh5-Sanford and Son 9-Spirit of '76 9-11-Tom and bor hood 9-11-Donny and Marie Grape Ape Show Week 11:45 p.m. 8 a.m. 11 a.m.

38-Washington in Review 9-Rock Concert 5-Secret Lives of 2-7-Valley of the Dinosaurs 7:30 p.m. Midnight Waldo Kitty 5-Jetsons 5-The Practice 5-Midnight Special 38-Electric Company 9-11-Lost Saucer 38-Wall Street Week 7-Movie 8:30 a.m. 38-Zoom p.m. a.m. 2-7-Scooby-Doo 11:30 a.m.

2-7-CBS Movie 2-Movie 5-Pink Panther 2-7-Cosby Kids 5-Rockford Files 9-11-New Adventures 5-Go USA 9'11-ABC Movie 1:15 a.m. of Gilligan 9-Treehouse Club 38-USA: People and 9-Spirit of '76 38-Misterogers Neigh- 11-Gomer Pyle Politics 1:20 a.m. bor hood 38-Crockett's Victory 9 p.m. 9-Christophers 9 a.m. Garden Ignorance is healthy Channel 5 "Sanford and Son" is hilarity in a hospital room, as Fred (Redd Foxx) is guarded by police prior to his eyewitness testimony that could put away Mr.

Big. However, he soon convinced that ignorance is healthful as well as blissful. (R) TV Scout 7-8 Channels 9-11 The Six Million Dollar Man, Lee Majors, and the Six Million Dollar Wife, Farrah Fawcett Majors, appear on "Donny and Marie" along with Paul Lynde, Karen Valentine, Monty Hall, Vincent Price and The Osmond Brothers. (R) 7-8 Channels 2-7 "Sara" (Brenda Vaccaro) faces problems when a 13-year-old student makes wedding plans. A realistic look at life on the prairie when child brides were not all that unusual.

(R) Channel 5 Titos Vandis plays Jules' (Danny Thomas) old friend on "The Practice." The friend is upset because David (David Spielberg) is part of a deal to provide his granddaughter with a nose job. It's a funny episode. (R) 8-9 Channel 5 "The Rockford Files" is amusing, with Jim (James Garner) hired by William Daniels to buy rare porcelin birds at auction. Camilla Sparv. plays a very proper lady, but is everyone who he and she appears to be? (R) 8-10 Channels 9-11 "The Public Eye: The Friday Night Movie" presentation, is Peter Shaffer's adaptation of his own one-act play.

Mia Farrow is married to Michael Jayston, and he suspects her of hanky-panky, so he hires detective Topol in this comedy. 8-10 Channels 2-7 "The Friday Night Movies: Attack on the Iron Coast" is a 1968 release, with Lloyd Bridges starring in a World War II adventure drama. 9-10 Channel 5 David Groh and Glenn Corbett track down a pair of clever jewel thieves on "Police Story," one of whom is played by George Hamilton. Police and family problems abound on this. (R) Club slates work night HORTONVILLE The Commercial Club here has planned a men's work night on the ball diamond to begin at 6 p.m.

Monday. Men asked to bring a shovel or rake. Families are asked to bring a side dish and eating utensils. Brats and refreshments will be served at 7 p.m. A report will be made on the 1976 homecoming.

Washington on Post union head blasts indictments WASHINGTON (A.P) A union official, charging that grand, jury indictments against Washington Post pressmen were fabricated by the Post and U.S. Atty. Earl Silbert, says Silbert turned "a labor dispute into a criminal matter." Everett Forsman, president of Local 6 of the Newspaper and Graphic Communications Union, said Thursday that the indictments are part of a conspiracy to destroy independent unionism at the Post. The pressmen were charged by a federal grand jury Wednesday with rioting and destruction of property during a strike at the Post last fall. More indictments are expected next week.

Silbert said it was "ridiculous" to suggest there was any collusion between his office and the Post. "There was undisputed evidence of criminal conduct and it was the duty and function of the grand jury to investigate marilyn beck's hollywood HOLLYWOOD Looks as though the Richard Burton-Suzy Hunt wedding might be an almost-all-of-the-family affair. Liza Todd Burton (Elizabeth's 18- year-old daughter by Todd) and Maria Burton (Elizabeth and Richard's 15-year-old adopted daughter) have arrived in town to houseguest with him and Suzy and likely will still be here when the couple become husband and wife. Richard and Suzy would have been married by now had their trip to Haiti last month in quest of instant divorces from Elizabeth Taylor and racing driver James Hunt not met with a legal hitch (Elizabeth hadn't signed separation papers from Richard). The hitching, I'm told, will take place as soon as word is received from Haiti that the divorces have been approved.

And that word is expected momentarily. Meanwhile. Burton prepares to take his third bride, he's telling buddies he'll' probably always be in love with Elizabeth but has given up hope of ever getting her back. They speak to each other on the phone practically every day, but avoid discussion of the painful problems min that tore their marriage asunder. those areas there's nothing left to say.

Elsewhere. Elizabeth, who slimmed down so beautifully following her marital split, is reportedly losing another of her continual battles with the bulge. She is in New York at the moment, and is continuing to keep in touch with the Iranian Ambassador to Washington, Ardeshir Zahedi who's offered to build her a marble house in his homeland. A marble house apparently doesn't appeal to her. However, in case the Ambassador is interested, she does have her heart set on an 80-karat diamond that was just mined in South Africa and is now in the process of being cut.

INSIDES ASIDES: Sources close to the scene say the reason Dinah Shore and Johnny Carson weren't at last Sunday's wedding of Frank Sinatra and Barbara Marx was that Frank wouldn't allow them there. It seems he's fumin' (for a change) because Carson wouldn't help Spiro Agnew plug his new novel with an on-air And because Dinah did -and his old buddy didn't come off in good light. You can be sure Barbara Marx wanted Dinah at the hitching. They've been close friends for years. Elton John's father is gathering newspaper space again with quotes about his son that include the comments, "Some of his songs are told me himself, 'Dad, it's all a big con.

But as long as the public laps it up I'm quite happy to go on giving it to them' Elton would really be happy if his father stopped speaking in his behalf in view of the fact they haven't spoken to each other in years. The pop star is close to his mother and stepdad, but says his real father has had no real inkling of his thoughts since his sire split from the family scene when Elton was but a lad. THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: Mary Martin, who underwent surgery at Chicago's Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center Hospital Wednesday for removal of a benign polyp on her vocal cord, will be doing most of her recuperating shipboard. Doctors reportedly have advised the musical comedy great that she must Dick still loves Liz rest her throat for two months -and Mary can't think of a better place of accomplishing that than on a lengthy ocean cruise.

The deal should be finalized by Monday for veteran actress Martha Raye to become Rock Hudson's new maid on "McMillan," replacing Nancy Walker, who's starring in her own show this year. No one will be replacing the McMillan "wife," Susan Saint James, who has divorced herself from the series. Now that George Hamilton has filed for divorce from Alana Collins, his wife of nearly five years (from whom he's been estranged since '75), she's packing her bags and heading to Europe for a month-long stay with friends. Charlton Heston, who drew record crowds but critical pans for his presentation of "Hamlet" at Los Angeles's Ahmanson Theater, will be returning to that stage in "A Long Day's Journey Into Night." First, however, Chuck must complete European production of the Salkinds' "The Prince and the Pauper," in which he's sharing film credits with George C. Scott and Rex Harrison who also have stage stints planned.

Scott will be going into "The Sly Fox" on Broadway with wife, Trish Van Devere; and Harrison will make his first appearance at England's famed Chichester Festival Playhouse in "Monsieur Perrichon's Travels." He also hopes to travel with it to America. THE BIG SCREEN SCENE: Those who get thrills from watching animals attack man, should be interested to learn that "Tentacles" has started shooting. Co-starring Shelley Winters and Bo Hopkins (and with Henry Fonda making a cameo appearance as the President of the United States), the horror of the film will center around a giant octopus, who becomes aroused by exposure to laser beams. The squirmy story has crews shooting in San Diego and the Mediterranean. Here at home, Billy Dee williams is taking a stand against the many critics who've leveled attacks at "Mahogany." He concedes that the poor-girlmakes-good picture in which he portrayed Diana Ross's lover, "might have had its faults.

least the story gave a lot of poor black people something to hope for, to spin healthy fantasies about. And, happily, it gave black audiences no cause to walk out of theaters in let's-get-Whitey moods for a (c) Marilyn Beck Special Features Fiction writer Paul Gallico dies NEW YORK (AP) Paul Gallico, whose career carried him from the golden age of sports writing to bestselling fiction, has died in Monaco, his literary agent announced here today. His books included "The Poseidon Adventure" and "The Snow Gallico died Thursday at the age of 78. He began writing fiction after winning distinction as the sports editor of the New York Daily News. Gallico had been living in Europe.

His literary agent, Dorothy Olding, announced his death at the request of his widow, Virginia. Gallico also leaves two sons, William and Robert, and a step-daughter, Ludmila von Falz-Fein. An honestly good value from Big Boy. Country Style Chicken This pail (9 pieces of chicken, cole slaw, french fries) feeds this many for this little: a person. Plump and tender Country Style Chicken, there's just none better in all the world.

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at Hwy. 41 2220 E. Northland Appleton, Wis. Appleton, Wis. TONIGHT ON SCOOP TV 11 NEWS 6:00 PM 10:00 PM PAT BOONE THE LITTLE ONES Pat Boone is the host of this documentary the work of the child care agency compassion in such areas around the world as Korea, Haiti and Indonesia.

6:30 PM SUPER ENTERTAINMENT! STARS! Tonight's guests are Lee Majors, The Osmond Brothers, The Ice Vanities, Vincent Price, Karen Valentine and Monty Hall. THE DONNY AND MARIE OSMOND SHOW abc 7:00 PM THE ABC FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIE "THE PUBLIC EYE" Mia Farrow and Topol star in movie about a jealous, middle aged businessman: the young wife he suspects of infidelity, and the eccentric private detective he hires to follow her. abc 8:00 PM and return indictments where appropriate." Post officials were unavailable for comment. The strike began Oct. 1 with an earlymorning walkout in which the Post's printing equipment was sabotaged and a foreman was roughed up.

The union is still striking the Post, but the newspaper has continued to publish with the help of nonunion pressmen. At a news conference, Forsman said that the Post, after trying for five years to oust the union from the pressroom, "fabricated ridiculous and extensive charges over a minor incident." The Post originally estimated the pressroom damage at $2 million, but later revised it to about $300,000. A Post reporter who supports the striking pressmen said an investigative report by the Chicago Tribune found that it cost the Post only $13,000 to replace the damage. REMEMBER PERSON ANNIVERSARY WIUK 1 10:30 TV 11. LATE NEWS SPECIAL Stanley Siegel, the original host for TV-11 News in 1971 will return from N.Y.

to celebrate its 5th anniversary. Also returning is Glen Loyd- TV 11's original Action Man, now the Action Man in Dallas, Texas. 10:30 PM ROCK CONCERT 11:30 PM.