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...successfully freed air fares. The Interstate Commerce Commission now proposes to make entry into the trucking business much easier for new operators and to end the rate fixing by conferences of truckers. Carter has pledged to make environmental and safety regulation less costly and appointed an interagency council to comb out overlapping and contradictory rules. Unfortunately, the council is made up of the regulators themselves. Weidenbaum dismisses it as "the sinners gathering together to protect themselves-a sick joke...
...name implies, the show is a junior version of the network's hard-punching weekly magazine-format program, 60 Minutes. It stars a couple of full-fledged CBS News correspondents, Betsy Aaron, 39, and Christopher Glenn, 40, who comb the country in search of stories that might interest teenagers and preteens-just as Dan Rather, Morley Safer and Mike Wallace do for adults. With slightly less success-at least from the looks of last Saturday's first 30 Minutes, which included rather pedestrian film reports on acne treatment and the plight of a justifiably obscure rock band trying...
...some of them take notes on the sheep wisdom being dispensed by experts. "If you comb the fecal matter out of your fleeces, they will bring higher prices," Bob Stewart, a professional wool buyer for Homestead Woolen Mills, explains to a small crowd, while everyone furiously scribbles down every word...
...appliances, some of which have complicated solid-state circuitry. The consumer today relies on powered handy-andies to perform the gamut of erstwhile manual chores: to carve, squeeze, blend, mix, whip, grind, toast, grill, simmer, brew, stew, waffle, percolate, fry, dry, polish, drill, sharpen, sweep, vacuum, brush, iron, comb, curl, open cans, close pores and answer the phone...
...where would that leave Cheryl Tiegs? Unconcerned. Her too radiant health could be subdued by the greens and purples in Way Bandy's paint box. Bows and ruffles would be easy. The wind machine could be turned off. Suga could stand on his tiptoes and comb in romance. The bones, really, are quite fine. But Tiegs has had enough of the small, sealed-off world of the studios and high-fashion magazines. This fine-looking, tough-minded California lady has packed her makeup kit and her tennis racket, and taken a deep breath, and is ready to move...