Word: cutoffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...send a trio of astronauts (James Brolin, O.J. Simpson, Sam Waterston -don't you love it?) to Mars. Unfortunately for the astronauts, NASA is headed by a devilish schemer (Hal Holbrook) who decides to fake the Mars landing in a TV studio rather than risk failure and a cutoff of appropriations. Predictably, the mad scientist's plans go wrong, wrong, wrong. Capricorn One turns into a vivid chase involving NASA henchmen, an investigative reporter (Elliott Gould), a crop-dusting pilot (Telly Savalas) and a couple of bloodsucking desert reptiles...
UMass got its first tally in the second. A one-out single by John Gallagher was the first hit of the ball game. Catcher Charlie Ciccone followed with a solid double down the right field line that Peter Bannish handled well, but his throw sailed over the first cutoff man's head and bounced in front of Bingham...
...Ohio, the state's largest utility, Ohio Edison, has been staying just above a 30-day coal supply. At that cutoff point, a mandatory 50% power cutback would be required, affecting General Motors and Chrysler plants and perhaps thousands of jobs. Last week officials were importing up to 35% of their power from Minnesota, New Jersey and other states...
...with another man. In her new quarters, she shared a bedroom, cooked meals, did the wash and shared household expenses. Her former husband soon stopped the alimony, contending he was legally justified because she was "habitually living with another man and holding herself out as his wife," grounds for cutoff under state law. In a 5-to-2 decision last week, New York's highest court disagreed. The law provides a two-part test, the Court of Appeals majority held, and even though she lived with the other man, she had never suggested to anyone that they were married...
Turkey's latest political crisis interrupted negotiations with officials of the International Monetary Fund, who were seeking to help avert national bankruptcy -including a threatened cutoff of credit for petroleum shipments from Libya and Iraq; IMF officials tired of cooling their heels during the crisis and returned to the U.S. to await the organization of Ecevit's government. Currently, Turkey's inflation is 35%, and unemployment is a huge 20% of the labor force. The nation is also gripped by political terrorism involving extremists of both the left and the right -the latter thought to be encouraged...