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...symbols identify two of the nation's newest, fastest-growing pay cable services, both of which are aggressively capitalizing on their noted (and notorious) images. Since its start in November, the Playboy Channel has been adding subscribers at an average rate of 25,000 a month, yielding a current total of more than half a million. The Disney Channel, whose launching last April was the most loudly trumpeted in cable history, now has nearly 350,000 subscribers, or 75,000 more than the company projected for this point...
...French were not appeased. If the tone of Perkins' message was not bad enough, what he did with the letter only added insult to injury. After writing his lamentable lines in Paris, Perkins traveled across the Channel to mail them from London. The reason: he was afraid the French mail service would not be able to handle 300,000 letters at one time...
...happy crew. Lloyd Roberts, an engineer, remarked on Charlie's load, "These passengers are the best. They don't pay, they don't talk back, and they are all one way." Last year 2,698 such passengers took the ferry from City Island across the 2/3-mile-wide channel to Hart Island, site of Potter's Field. In the past 114 years, about 1 million bodies have made the trip...
Critics of the Administration, and even some officials in the regulatory agencies, complain that OMB has become a back channel for special interests trying to get relief from proposed or existing regulations. OMB was empowered by Reagan to apply a "cost-benefit" analysis to all federal rules. It has reviewed 119 regulations already on the books, killing or revising 76 of them and proposing changes in 27 more. Of 6,700 proposed new rules, it has revised or rejected about one in nine. Its review process can take months or years, effectively putting a brake on good as well...
Call them the boys of Indian summer. Roy Scheider, 47, and Robert Redford, 46, have both donned pinstripes and taken the field in two new movies about the All-American pastime. In Tiger Town, the first made-for-TV feature for the new Disney cable channel, Scheider plays Billy Young, a fading 39-year-old baseball legend who is spurred on to win a pennant by the faith of an eleven-year-old fan, played by Justin Henry, 12 (Kramer vs. Kramer). Scheider, who broke his nose during an early "career" as a boxer, says that he has always wanted...