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Under-the-Table Pay. The newly organized pro circuit is the creation of ABC-TV and Bob Beattie, former coach of the U.S. ski team, who sees it as one alternative to the "shamateurism" that plagues skiing. The problem stems from the archaic Olympic Committee rule, which states that an amateur athlete may not spend more than six weeks a year pursuing his sport. For skiers like Kidd-and indeed athletes in any sport -the rule is patently ridiculous. "In order to compete at the top nowadays," explains Kidd, "you have to spend at least ten months skiing." The amateur...
...High school teachers are fussy, frightened and old, hiding from the world in a cloud of chalk dust. Stereotype No. 2: High school principals wear three-piece suits, stern expressions and are totally devoid of humor. Good shows often result from giving the lie to stereotypes, witness ABC-TV's Room 222, which features a handsome black history teacher (Lloyd Haynes) and a rumpled, comfortable principal (Michael Constantine), whose strongest trait is a sense of underplayed humor. It works; in the current season, Room 222 has appeared consistently among the ten top-rated programs, and deserves...
...become its custom, ABC-TV has looked over its current line-up of shows and tossed out nine of them. Victims of the tune-out are Land of the Giants, It Takes a Thief, The Engelbert Humperdinck Show, Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour, Paris 7000, The Flying Nun, Here Come the Brides, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, and Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters Hour. On all the networks, the thing for next year is Youth and Sociology. But if you're No. 3, apparently, you really try harder...
...ABC-TV's new shows, four are youth-oriented. The Young Rebels, a one-hour drama set in Revolutionary Pennsylvania, focuses on three young members of a Yankee guerrilla band. The Young Lawyers deals with law students and a legal-aid society. In Dial Hot Line. Psychiatrist Vince Edwards (Dr. Ben Casey) runs a telephone service set up by a metropolitan hospital to deal with troubled teens who have no one else to talk to. The Partridge Family is a situation-comedy series dealing with a rock group headed by the mother of the family (shades of The Cowsills...
...business at first sight. As Raquel recalls it: "He saw me and I saw him, and we put our heads together." The result of this cerebral huddle was the creation?three weeks later?of Curtwel enterprises. Shortly thereafter, things began to happen. Bikini picture in LIFE. Billboard girl on ABC-TV's Hollywood Palace. Twentieth Century-Fox contract. Said Fox Talent Director Owen McLean: "We thought we would build her up slowly; that it would take some time. But she got more publicity by accident than most girls get on purpose...