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...throttling back expansion of the U.S. money supply, he might not get the other six Federal Reserve governors to agree-and even if he did, he would practically be inviting an outraged Congress to take away the Federal Reserve's cherished independence. One newspaper cartoon pictures Burns and Carter as a Washington version of Price and Pride, A. &P.'s smoothly complementary TV pitchmen: Burns presumably cautioning the proud Carter not to jazz up the economy so much as to make the inflationary price unacceptable. That may be overstating the prospects for harmony...
...ballet student with the physical skills to do most of her own stunts. She is convinced the show has value because it "shows that women don't have to be unattractive to be independent." She, of course, has the hardest row to hoe-trying to humanize a cartoon character who is located in the never-never land of nostalgic camp...
...President Robert Wussler (they occasionally wave to each other from their windows). Silverman arrives at 9:30 each morning and begins rousing his West Coast producers from bed to discuss the overnight ratings. The rest of his day is a marathon of meetings-with soap-opera writers, sitcom producers, cartoon animators, promotion experts, demographics wizards. He returns to his Central Park West apartment for dinner with his wife Cathy and their daughter Melissa, 4, then holes up in his den with a stack of scripts, a rack of video cassettes and two cassette players, which he watches simultaneously...
...many network programming chiefs pass time listening to tapes of worms and whales to find voices for a Saturday-morning cartoon show. But then, Fred Silverman, 40, is not just any network programming chief. He is, just now, the kingdom and the power, the man who put ABC in Nielsen heaven and gave Charlie's Angels their wings...
...years of scheduling movies for Chicago's WGN-TV, he showered network executives in New York with unsolicited letters, some of them assessing program lineups. CBS eventually took him on. His first triumph was to make Saturday morning profitable for the network by replacing sitcom reruns with new cartoon series. Later, as programming chief, he gave the network such treasures as Cannon, Maude, Rhoda, Phyllis, Sonny and Cher, Tony Orlando and Dawn...