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...PERSUADERS (ABC). "I'm Brett to my friends, but you may call me darling." Lady Brett Ashley speaking? No, Lord Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore, TV's engaging former Saint), who is the Oxbridge playboy half of The Persuaders. His co-persuader is Danny Wilde, a new-rich high roller from The Bronx (Tony Curtis), and the two of them womanize and swashbuckle around the Cote d'Azur "in the name of justice." For all their jet-set airs, their plebeian repartee and stupefying plots make Roger and Tony emerge more like Batman and Robin in ascots. Catch...
...night his wife Lisa (Joanna Shimkus) discovers him spying on a teen-age swim party and promptly takes off for her sister's. Alren makes several attempts to lure her back, each stymied by Lisa's obstinacy or the pseudopsychological prattering of her sister Nan (Elizabeth Ashley), who has, it seems, a good deal more than an amateur analyst's interest in her brother-in-law. She makes frequent trips to his beachside bachelor lair. At one point she practically unravels her bathing suit in an attempt to interest him. He remains impassive throughout...
...reclamation officials have praised Kentucky Oak's efforts to plant apple and peach trees on stripped land and its experiments with terracing, successful reclamation is extremely difficult on the steep slopes. Indeed, residents have few kind words for the company. "They've destroyed the mountains," says Paul Ashley, a leading local opponent of surface mining. "They've destroyed the timber. They've destroyed the streams, and their coal trucks have destroyed our roads...
...without fear of losing their business. No longer forced to compete for patients, local doctors share their skills for the entire community's benefit, but retain their individuality. "We are more a group of solo practitioners with pooled resources and supporting personnel than anything else," says Dr. Charles Ashley, the hospital director...
...expenditures of another $2.4 billion. House Republicans did, however, succeed in eliminating-at least for the time being -provisions that would have given Washington wide powers in the establishment of new communities. Their success illuminated the absentee problem in the postelection session. "We had the votes," said Representative Thomas Ashley, Ohio Democrat. "We simply didn't have them on the floor...