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...Buffalo Bill wins laughs as the most outrageous...
...hypocrite, a braggart, a coward and a misogynist. He is sycophantic, grasping, rude and vain. He is also hilarious, the most outrageous character on television. He is Bill Bittinger, a Buffalo talk-show host, brilliantly played by Dabney Coleman, on NBC's new comedy series Buffalo Bill. The character is that rarity on television, a star who is a truly unsentimental cad. His lone redeeming feature is his unredeemability. To Buffalo Bill, all women are "bimbos" to be seduced, all men rivals to be traduced. If American viewers had not lost their innocence about unscrupulous TV characters, Bill would...
DIED. William E. Miller, 69, seven-term New York State Republican Congressman and lawyer, who ran for Vice President of the U.S. on Barry Goldwater's ill-fated 1964 ticket; of a stroke; in Buffalo. After the defeat, Miller returned to Lockport, N.Y., and obscurity, re-emerging briefly in a 1975 American Express card commercial ("Do you know me?") for which he is at least as well remembered nationally as for his political career...
...biggest job sector, its service industries, which together employ 882,000 people. There is a muscular side as well, with 869,000 workers in manufacturing, about a third in aerospace and other clean, high-tech industries. But parts of the city could pass for Buffalo. On the waterfront in Long Beach sit stacks of blue and orange cargo containers. In Lynwood, railroad tracks run past auto salvagers, truck-winch manufacturers, scrap-metal piles...
When it first went into the air two years ago, People Express had only three planes serving four cities: Newark, Columbus, Buffalo and Norfolk. Now, in addition to its new London flights, People has 22 aircraft flying to 19 U.S. cities stretching from Portland, Me., to West Palm Beach, Fla. Its quick success has come from cutting frills and slashing standard fares, often by more than half. Like its domestic flights, People's trips to London will offer few free amenities. Passengers will have to pay $6 extra for a food basket that might contain a tuna sandwich...