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...Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour as it was six years ago, when it was canceled for a controversialism more alleged than real (and ratings that were slipping). The new title is an example of truth in advertising, for the brothers' opening broadcast contained no comedy. A few expectant chuckles ac companied Tommy's prologue-mono logue about the inverse relation between the Smothers' fortunes and Richard Nixon's. His uncertain promise that they were going to be good boys and stay away from politics raised hopes that wickedness might win out and they would at least tell...
...student members of this year's as-yet-unformed Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility are considering instituting some changes in the AC-SR's procedures...
...have to ask yourself about each individual case, and the circumstances are always different. What is to be ac complished by having certain people sitting in the slammer...
Upper-income home owners have not been severely affected by the col lapse of the mortgage market. The wealthy still trade $100,000 houses and co-op apartments among themselves - though sellers sometimes have to ac cept paper payment in the form of private mortgages from buyers who cannot get bank financing. Large corporations ease the financial pains of executives who are transferred from one part of the country to another. When Olin Corp. moved Sales Representative Geoffrey Belanger and his family from Old Bridge, N.J., to Boston recently, it gave him an interest-free loan of $13,000, representing...
Readers old enough to remember the 1944 hit Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive may find themselves murmuring Johnny Mercer's upbeat lyrics as they delve into the newest study of the nation's health and status. The Real America (Doubleday; $7.95) will not be published until this fall, but galleys have been circulating in Washington for weeks; President Ford has already publicly applauded its conclusions. This is hardly surprising, since Author Ben J. Wattenberg's upbeat and arguable analysis of the state of the Union amply reinforces Ford's own optimistic outlook...