Word: carsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carson Beach and Columbia Point sit on the edge, and no matter where you go you can see the Federal Reserve Bank on the horizon, so it's hard to convince anyone that Boston Harbor is a romantic place...
...shoes touched off hoarding of clothes, and the rationing of canned meats and fish started panic buying of canned vegetables and fruit. Another lesson is that scarcity is not essential to hoarding. In 1973, reporting a Congressman's fatuous remark that supplies might grow short, TV Host Johnny Carson touched off nationwide panic buying of toilet paper...
...academy has two other working members.* One is the San Francisco Chronicle's Art Hoppe, 54, who tucks away moral lessons in his whimsical scenes, events and characters-like the Harvard-educated gorilla who chucks his campaign for the presidency to run for Johnny Carson's job, and the Ratt of Phynkia, who declares peace on the neighboring Republic of Mbonga to win U.S. foreign aid, then calls it off when he learns he would have to take the aid in weapons. "Writing a column beats honest work," says Hoppe. "It leaves the mornings free for other projects...
Paranoia has been running at a high level in the executive suite for months, and last week's events were hardly likely to reduce it. The final Nielsen ratings for the regular 1978-79 television season gave NBC its worst average in more than a decade. Johnny Carson, the brightest star in the insomniac firmament, was keeping network nabobs awake at night wondering whether he would indeed quit the Tonight Show before his contract runs out in April 1981. An embezzlement scandal was boiling, affiliate stations were restless and gossip was rampant. Parent Company RCA laid...
...good news on Carson was balanced off by a continued slump in the news division. Weekend magazine, critically praised but sparsely watched, was scrapped. ABC's Good Morning, America continues to gain ground on the Today show, which once ate the competition for breakfast. Worse still, two weeks ago, the Nightly News briefly fell into third place in the ratings for the first time ever. The network partly attributed the drop to ABC's rejuvenated news operation. It also admitted that affiliate switches had hurt; in the past two years, NBC has lost ten major local stations...