Description: American League East one-game playoff: Red Sox vs Yankees at Fenway Park. Announcers Keith Jackson and Don Drysdale. Starting pitchers Mike Torrez and Ron Guidry. New York lineup: Mickey Rivers, Thurman Munson, Lou Piniella, Reggie Jackson, Graig Nettles, Chris Chambliss, Roy White, Brian Doyle, Bucky Dent. Boston lineup: Carl Yastrzemski, Fred Lynn, Jim Rice, Jack Brohamer, Rick Burleson, Jerry Remy, George Scott, Carlton Fisk, Butch Hobson. Game through top of fourth inning, Boston leads 1-0. (Yankees won championship 5-4…not on this tape.)
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/02/1978
Description: Dr. Mary Ellen Avery, pediatrician at Children's Hospital, talks about hyaline membrane disease and respiratory distress syndrome in premature infants. (Lung tissue is stiff, making breathing difficult, and can lead to broncho-pulmonary dysplasia.) Vitamin E as antioxidant is suggested as treatment in recent study at Yale New Haven Medical Center. Neonatal unit of extremely tiny babies in incubators with breathing apparatus.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/13/1978
Description: Treasurer Robert Crane sings at party.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/24/1978
Description: Frantic pace of food ordering and preparation in S&M Deli on Beacon Street, Boston. Fleet of line cooks make variety of sandwiches and salads in rapid succession. Orders called out by restaurant staff in lunchtime rush. Bins of ingredients - iceberg lettuce, sliced meats and cheeses, tomatoes, pickles. Assorted breads and rolls, condiments, sauces. Sodas, packaged snack cakes, potato chips, crushed ice. Customers crowd near counter awaiting takeout orders. Staff in perpetual motion. Close-up as price is rung into cash register. Storefront.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/07/1978
Description: Long rows of parked school buses behind chain link fence. Striking bus drivers wear union buttons. Union members meet in conference room. Interview with David Finnegan about negotiations and wage issue. Interview with two steelworker union officials on stalemate with Hudson and Brush Hill Cos. Close-up on padlock. Bus drivers with placards. Man in information center talks to parent on phone about alternative transportation to school.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/10/1978
Description: Construction of Seabrook nuclear power plant. Wide shot of site. Hard hat workers, cranes, bulldozer, thousands of reinforcing rods. Area of excavation through rock walls. reel 1 of 2.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/21/1978
Description: Construction of Seabrook nuclear power plant. Hard hat workers. Heavy equipment. Giant concrete tubes. Pan parking lot. Abandoned railroad tracks. Seagulls scavenge in field with felled trees. Interview with PSNH official Norm on delays and cost increases allegedly brought on by opposition groups. Talks about anticipated rally by Clamshell Alliance. Guarded entry booth. No Trespassing sign. reel 2 of 2.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/21/1978
Description: State Sen. George Rogers of New Bedford convicted of corruption (bribery and conspiracy via fraudulent $5000 consulting contract in vocational education scandal) in Suffolk Superior Court. Defense attorney Sullivan mobbed by press. Rogers fainted in court and is wheeled out on stretcher. Prosecutor Stephen Delinsky says sentence is fair. Rogers will serve time in Barnstable House of Correction. Sullivan will appeal. Glimpse of Gail Harris.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/24/1978
Description: Interview with New England Aquarium official about alleged harpooning of great white shark off Long Island. Inside Aquarium, looking into giant tank. Sharks of various sizes and colors swim past. Close-up on dorsal fin in water. Lower view into tank. Large tortoise and many fish glide by. Head on view of approaching shark - eyes, mouth.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/26/1978
Description: Indoor skateboard rink in Cambridge. Teen and younger boys practice maneuvers on ramps, slides, tubes and half-pipes. Caution signs advise on technique and warn about injuries. Boys wear helmets, gloves, elbow and knee pads.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/01/1978