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...disappeared, though they may be less gory. CHiPS, an acronym for California Highway Patrol, will be the season's one new cop show. (The cops are known as Chippies to California motorists, but NBC quickly saw the problem with that title.) Daniel Boone is back, or rather Young Dan'l Boone. This time he is 25 years old and accompanied by a runaway slave and preteen sidekick on his wilderness walks for CBS. For long-neglected horse opera fans, Rod Taylor will bit The Oregon Trail as a pioneer plodding west for NBC, Big Hawaii will go even...
...worker is offered $2.50 an hour, and told that whoever shows up punctually will get $2.67 instead. Anyone who is so much as one minute late loses the bonus for the entire week.'" Morale is high, and last year 85 workers moved on to private jobs. Says Maverick President Dan MacKinnon: "Of that group, 25% have lost their jobs. That doesn't make me feel very good, but one thing...
Output Threatened. In the Northwest, drought has threatened the output of river-based hydroelectric generators. "The future for the Pacific Northwest is very grim," says Dan Schausten, an executive of the Bonneville Power Administration, which services Washington, Oregon, Idaho and western Montana. If the drought persists next year, B.P.A. may impose electricity cutbacks-and, in the worst case, rotate scheduled blackouts among the communities it serves. A similar rotation of brief blackouts was imposed on Jan. 17 by Virginia Electric & Power and the Southern Co. when demand for heating during the big freeze-combined with equipment shutdowns elsewhere...
Ancient Israel's dimensions varied greatly. At the time of the twelve tribes (see map) the country stretched from Dan to Beersheba, which has become a famous phrase of definition. The country reached its greatest size two centuries later in Solomon's time. Begin has consistently referred to the occupied West Bank as "Samaria and Judea." Says Biblical Scholar Shemaryahu Talmon of Jerusalem's Hebrew University: "The Promised Land always includes Judea and Samaria and sometimes even the eastern side of the Jordan River...
...direction is almost always inventive, often hilarious, and sometimes touching. There were a few times when the staging was too cramped, but one must remember that the sets and blocking were designed for the Goodspeed's restricted space. Incidentally, Edward Haynes's sets are just charming--as is Dan Siretta's choreography...