Word: auge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When it comes to TV news broadcasts [Aug. 22], I can live without weathermen who sound like fugitives from a sideshow, beautiful anchor people, "analysts" who produce instant wisdom for any calamity, and minicamera coverage of criminals in action...
...congressional investigations. No major bombshells are expected, but the potential for further embarrassing questions is great. In the Senate, Abraham Ribicoffs Governmental Affairs Committee will make its fourth inquiry, encompassing Lance's confirmation hearing in January, into his fitness to serve as OMB director. The last hearing (TIME, Aug. 8) was a love feast; as a committee member later put it, Lance was given a "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval." Having looked foolish in the past, the committee's members can be expected to treat Lance much less gingerly this time around. Chairman Ribicoff and the Southern Democrats...
...ready in Newport when George Hinman, head of the six-member selection committee, came to tell him and his crewmen the news: "Gentlemen, you have been selected to defend the America's Cup." Skipper Turner, 38, a Georgian who owns the Atlanta Braves and the Atlanta Hawks (TIME, Aug. 8), had won the right to try to retain for the U.S. the world's oldest international sporting trophy by defeating the other two U.S. aspirants, Enterprise and Independence, in 26 out of 35 races. Before the beginning of the race against the foreign challenger Australia on Sept...
...Goodman, whose hip and compassionate Boston Globe commentary is also distributed by the Post Group; Jeff MacNelly, the Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist who next week will launch with the Trib-News syndicate a comic strip about a bird who edits a newspaper; New York News Funnyman Gerald Nachman (TIME, Aug. 23,1976); and, most recently, Jack Germond and Jules Witcover, a pair of Washington veterans whose six-month-old investigative column promises to match Jack Anderson scoop for scoop...
...Erotic Adventures of Casanova was the feature attraction at three southern California moviehouses on Aug. 22, according to the Los Angeles Times (circ. 1,021,000), while Jail Bait was at eight more local theaters. The next day those cinematic classics were still packing them in, but without benefit of the Times. The paper had become the latest and largest U.S. daily to close its pages to display advertising for pornographic films...