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While we are clogging the roads on the way to the ballparks, race tracks and gambling casinos, what right do we have asking our allies to ruin themselves by joining our Iranian boycott...
...immediate trigger for the feminist fury was the Equal Rights Amendment. Though many psychiatrists flaunted little ERA stickers on their name tags, A.P. A. members had voted last winter to drop the organization's boycott of states that had not ratified the amendment. That meant that next year's meeting would be held in non-ERA New Orleans. But the feminists, vowing to publicize the names of any psychiatrist who showed up in New Orleans, created such a clamor that one male doctor warned: "The A.P.A. is in big trouble." The organization's board of trustees apparently...
...Moscow Olympic boycott could not have come at a more inopportune time for NBC. The network has been deep in the ratings cellar for the past five years, and pretax profits have slid from $152.6 million in 1977 to $106 million last year. Silverman, "the man with the golden gut," has been able to raise NBC'S ratings only marginally during his two-year tenure. When he was programming chief at ABC, he promoted his prime-time shows heavily during the 1976 Olympics, and the network grabbed the ratings lead in January 1977. ABC's profits before taxes...
...protesters, beginning at about 7:15 p.m., marched in a circle in the Quincy courtyard repeating "Freedom of the press is not freedom to molest," "Boycott 'Deep Throat,'" and other chants...
Manos said the organizers of the protest were not in favor of legal action against the Quincy House Film Society, and had not filed the legal complaints that led to the students' arrests. The group had organized only an informational picket and a boycott of the movie, she added...