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Ironically, a $150 million gift to public TV and radio from Publisher Walter Annenberg (TV Guide, Seventeen), announced less than two weeks ago. will do little to bail out PBS. Annenberg's money, spread over 15 years, will finance the production of a PBS program of college-level courses, but it will not subsidize regular programming. Some Congressmen assume that Annenberg's gift will do precisely that, however, and are now asking public TV executives, "What do you need our money...
...plays second base or nowhere, hums a different tune. "I'm not going to accept the situation that happened last year, when I played two games in 12 days. If that's how they're going to use me. I'd be more valuable to the club as trade bail. I can play second base somewhere...
...Chief Justice's points appeared to stem from a belief that the "massive safeguards for accused persons" built up by the judicial system in recent decades are out of proportion with the protection now afforded to law abiding citizens. He urged more stringent standards on bail to prevent the release of suspects likely to commit a crime between their arrest and trial. For those who end up behind bars, he renewed his familiar proposals for better facilities, improved training, and more sensible incentives to "learn the way out of prison...
...pickup. They drive for about five miles, seeking a quiet spot where the fishing won't be interrupted by the noise and clatter of passing snowmobiles. As usual they have chains on their tires. As usual the pickup's doors are flung wide open-so they can bail out at the first sign of the ice breaking up. Last year Don slipped on the ice and fractured his skull, but it does not bother him. Soon they wrestle Chuck's shanty into place...
...lowest in 40 years. Not bad for a Conservative government! It's our realistic policy of saying, "You're responsible for what goes on in your factory, and if you get it wrong, you can carry the can. Don't come to government to bail you out." [The unions] are now getting rid of some of their own militants...