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...when things wax serious, as they often do, that Chayefsky and Hiller choke on their own message: moral responsibility is needed not only to guide lives but to save them as well. Anyway, George C. Scott is on hand to make things bearable, and sometimes more than that. He is such a consummate actor that he can even handle Chayefsky's dialogue, which rightfully should be engraved for posterity on a plaque made of chicken...
...Classified exhibit). Forth, sensors on both sides of the munitions package, determine if truck traffic is getting through the package. Sensors in others locations are used to determine other routes taken by the enemy if he cannot get through the munitions package. By creating a difficult-to-bypass choke point, munitions packages can also result in a concentration of enemy vehicles. These can then be attacked using CBU-24 and general-purpose bombs...
...East and Gulf coasts, preferring to give the disputants more time to work it out for themselves. Meanwhile, shippers who tried to avoid the dock mess in the U.S. by diverting their vessels to Canadian ports along the St. Lawrence face another peril. Winter weather will probably choke the seaway with ice in mid-December, stranding for three months any ships that have not made it out to open water...
GETTING TOGETHER (ABC). Screen Gems and Bernard Slade, creators of The Partridge Family, are tightening their choke-hold on the teeny-bop audience. Pop Idol Bobby Sherman (Bubble Gum and Braces) is the sure draw as the composer in an unsung songwriting team. He is also guardian of his twelve-year-old sister (Susan Neher), who serves as housekeeper for him and his sappy live-in lyricist (Wes Stern), to the agitation of local social workers. The series' premise is a rather icky wicket, and Simon and Garfunkel the boys are not. But, as in The Partridge Family...
...higher than the count that federal health authorities consider hazardous. More than 50 million tons of untreated sewage is spewed from the cities of Miami Beach and North Miami each day, turning the shoreline into a stinking mess that Floridians bitterly call "the Rose Bowl." Sludge and fecal matter choke the Miami River to a depth of 12 ft. Calling present plans to cope with coastal pollution "grossly inadequate and ineffective," a state report has warned that Florida could become uninhabitable within 30 years...