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...process, the viewer should benefit. To be sure, cable TV may never win mass audiences for many programs. Its leaders have no intention of even trying to do so. That would mean duplicating network fare-and who would pay to watch something akin to the shows he now sees free? The networks are unrivaled at concocting programs that appeal to tens of millions, but in the process they have ignored the specialized interests that every member of the TV audience also possesses. Cable TV, in contrast, offers for profit the potential choice of programs to suit every taste...
...citizens' fund-raising drive to "save our Stuarts," and the two museums agreed to postpone the sale until 1980. Meanwhile the local newspapers could not resist some word slinging of their own. "Free George and Martha!" demanded the Washington Post. Sniffed the Boston Globe: "The proposed deal is akin to, say, selling Faneuil Hall to the state of Arizona as a tourist attraction." The New York Times offered its own cheeky compromise: since New York City is equidistant from the feuding cities, why not let George and Martha rest in peace at its Metropolitan Museum...
Philadelphia fans will turn out in record numbers to see Pete and cheer for their first pennant since 1950. Rose, apparently, has fielding skills akin to those of Philadelphia's long line of horrendous first basemen (who can forget Dick "Dr. Strange-glove" Stuart...
...whole generation of dancers was lost as schools were closed. Mao's wife Jiang Qing (Chiang Ch'ing) decided that she just did not like two steps basic to the dance vocabulary, the entrechat and the pas de basque. So she had them excised, which was akin to taking the verb out of sentences. Now the ballet classes are filled again, and a classical ballet performance is the hottest ticket in China...
...provide for stiff penalties, a long statute of limitations and recovery of illegal gains Those named as defendants are Uni Oil Inc. of Texas and three of its executives: President Thomas M. Hajecate, his father Thomas H. Hajecate, who is secretary-treasurer of the company, and Vice President Charles Akin. Charges were also filed against James Fisher, a former Uni vice president and part owner of Armada Oil Co., as well as against Ball Marketing Enterprise of Lafayette, La., and one of its oil brokers, Charles Goss. All who have commented have said they will plead not guilty. If convicted...