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...police force. The uniforms and the cop paraphernalia make guys whom politicians have called "the little man" all their lives feel a little bit bigger Law and Disorder lets Carroll O'Connor step only slightly out of his All in the Family role. O'Connor's cab driver has the same inflection and bitterness as Archie Bunker Given a good scene, however-such as the sequence in which he tells his wife about his disappointments and dreams -O'Connor proves that he is still a dexterous and poignant actor
...current unpleasantness first surfaced publicly last April when Charles Merritts was re-elected school board president. "I'm the boss," he boasted. "I ain't going to stand for any criticism." Merritts, 56, the town's most influential politician and owner of a cab company, an insurance agency and several liquor stores, was used to having...
...savings could run double that. The deal is not certain to go through. The Justice Department may register antitrust objections, since approval of the agreement would reverse the Government's overall policy of insisting that at least two U.S.-flag airlines serve each major overseas route. The CAB favors the agreement in general, but it still must approve the details. On the other hand, if the swaps come off, they could mark a long step toward a full Pan Am-TWA merger. So far, the two lines have been cool toward marriage, despite prodding by the Ford Administration...
...regulatory agencies have proliferated by the score into today's alphabet soup. In 1920, Congress set up the Federal Power Commission (FPC) to watch over the burgeoning hydroelectric industry; in 1934, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to monitor the new radio industry; in 1938, the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) to police the airlanes; in 1946, the Atomic Energy Commission...
...category into which Reed consigns all those he regards as black opportunists-Ed Yellings' own son, for instance, Street Yellings, a violent militant who has a rape clinic named after him. There is also Ed's daughter Minnie the Moocher ("a lowdown hootchy-kootcher," according to Cab Calloway), whose entourage is a group of Amazonian bodyguards known as the Daho-meyan Softball Team...