Word: copping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Roddenberry assembled a talented production crew, and sought out some of the best science fiction writers around, men like Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, Norman Spinrad, instead of relying on the usual hacks who specialized in cop shows and dumb westerns. At a cost of $200,000 for each episode, Star Trek at least strove for excellence and intelligence, if it came up short sometimes...
MARRIED. Erik Estrada, 30, heartthrob highway cop in NBC-TV's CHiPS series; and Joyce Miller, 39; he for the first time, she for the second; in Las Vegas...
...would benefit if they comply with the report's foreign language recommendations, Wilga M. Rivers, coordinator of instruction in the Romance Languages and one of the Harvard faculty members who made presentations at the commission's hearings, said yesterday. But she added she believes "the inventive grant is a cop-out. There's no quality control built...
...Philadelphia bade farewell to Frank Rizzo, the outspoken ex-cop who once appealed to Philadelphians to "vote white." Rizzo failed last year to persuade voters to amend the city charter so that he could win a third term, and he stayed grumpily aloof from the election, pronouncing a pox on all his would-be successors. Said he: "Between the three of them, if you scrambled their brains, you wouldn't get a half...
...Minneapolis too the hard-nosed cop image seemed to lose its appeal. It was personified in that city by Charles Stenvig, a policeman who won three two-year terms as mayor, the most recent in 1975. He tried for a fourth last week, distributing one pamphlet in which he was pictured wrapped in the American flag...