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Last week at his home in Carson City, Nev., Oliver welcomed the minicoup. Eventually he hopes to move to Santo, where he plans to operate a 2,000-acre sugar plantation. "The islanders want development," he says. "They want electricity and roads and jobs. They don't want to live in the bush with the mosquitoes. There's no such thing as the noble savage...
...Applaud all you want," said Johnny Carson, flashing the monologue moue that has become a Tonight show trademark. "I'm stuck for three more years." Stuck? Well, yes, if $5 million a year or so is mucilage. The real sticking point in the latest contract battle between Carson's Carnac the Magnificent and Silverman the Munificent, however, was not money but exposure. Carson demanded less of it than his present 4½ hours a week. NBC President Fred Silverman insisted on more. Eventually they compromised. The Tonight show, as a result, will be cut from 90 minutes...
...weeks ago when Cronkite refused to commit himself, the committee approached Barbara Tuchman, historian and author, Johnny Carson and Burt Reynolds, members of the committee said. All three declined...
...Rachel Carson, The Silent Spring...
...baseball fans, the thought of springtime without the national pastime was at least as shocking as Rachel Carson's ghostly 1962 musing about environmental death in the season of new life. Spring without the crack of the bat, the call of the ump, the roar of the crowd! Only the players, of all people, shouting "St-e-e-rike...