Dustin Hoffman

August, 1968

In October, the American Broadcasting Company will embark on its most ambitious video venture to date--televising 42 hours of Olympic competition from Mexico City to the U. S., most of it live, all of it in color. The man most responsible for ABC-TV's presence in Mexico this fall is Roone Arledge, 37, who was recently named president of ABC Sports and who in April celebrated his seventh anniversary as producer and creator of ABC's Wide World of Sports. "Our Summer Olympic coverage," sa...