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...this admittedly primitive standard, Little House on the Prairie (NBC, Wednesday, 8 p.m. E.D.T.) seems the best of a highly domesticated breed. It is true that Star-Producer Michael Landon looks as if he just stepped out of a unisex beauty salon on the Strip rather than 430 episodes of Bonanza. His unwillingness to express anything but for bearance as he struggles to wrest a living from his farm also strains credulity. On the other hand, his problems often lead the Ingalls family into livelier action sequences than competing shows offer. Best of all, the show eschews the nostalgic...
...leaping oil prices, President Nixon last December set up what became the Federal Energy Administration to centralize U.S. energy policymaking. The centralization lasted little longer than the crisis. Almost as soon as last winter's gasoline lines disappeared, the question of who should coordinate energy policy began to breed baroque rivalries-and now, with the Ford Administration in control, three potent Washington figures are scrapping for leadership. They...
...transit, antipollution facilities), but some has been dubious (his massive $1 billion concrete and marble Albany mall, which will rehouse much of the state government when it is completed hi 1975-five years late). To critics of the mall, who have labeled it "instant Stonehenge," Rocky replies: "Mean structures breed small vision...
...manner, if not in his top-level earnings, Ferguson is typical of a new breed of cowboy that is rapidly transforming the rodeo from a rowdy range spectacle to a disciplined, businesslike sport. Fully one-third of the 3,000-member Rodeo Cowboys Association today have attended college, and only half have ever worked on a ranch-rodeo's traditional training ground. For them the path upward winds through "Little Britches" (the cowboy's equivalent of the Little League), high school competition and eventually college teams.*Competitors put up with the serious training regimen in return...
...that leaves the two kinds of student politics, meeting around the edges--when a Provisional runs for a University committee, when a University committee endorses a demonstration, or in concentrations and classes (Social Studies or Soc Sci 2, "Western Thought and Institutions") that breed a lot of political types...