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...hockey vs. Minnesota at Grand Forks. N.D. 8:30 p.m. (WHRB Broadcast begins at 8:15 p.m. at 95.3 on the FM dial. WHRB will also broadcast Saturday's game beginning at 8:15 p.m. if Harvard defeats Minnesota, or at 1:50 p.m. if Harvard loses tonight...
...possibility of universal socialism and man's ability to live in outer space are the century's "three greatest events." The End of the World News (the BBC news readers' sign-off phrase) amplifies those themes with a twist, and it is a twist of the dial. Reading, says the author, must reflect the new way of viewing television in the "three-screen family." Therefore his postliterary trilogy is broken into prime-time vignettes...
When residents of Tampa, Fla.'s Hillsborough County dial 229-9241, they hear a most unusual reply: "Corruption hot line." It is not a wrong number, nor is the businesslike voice on the receiving end peddling tips on how much the local health inspector will take to overlook the roaches in a restaurant. The phone is manned by an alert agent of the FBI, who listens with poised pencil to any caller's allegation that local officials are crooks...
...outcome of the story, confected by William Link and Richard Levinson, has never been in doubt. Far more uncertain has been the fate of the show itself. From the start, Elmer Bernstein's dial-tone melodies and Don Black's laundry-list lyrics overwhelmed every scene. Lame gags and pyrotechnical special effects?a barrage of chemicals, dry ice, floating props and eccentric lighting?fought the tiny wisp of plot. During one inauspicious performance, Henning's wife Debby, who plays a variety of roles, including Water, one of the four elements, found herself on the wrong side of a fountain...
...easy-to-use converter. Buyers who ask Ma Bell to make the hookup, however, can be charged up to $40 an hour. Some phones now being offered for sale are cheaply assembled and may last only about two years, compared with the old AT&Tphones that were designed to dial and ring for 15 to 20 years. Although the Bell System still makes free repairs on the phones that it leases, it charges about $30 for a service call on a customer-owned phone. With the cost of phones declining, ITT's Miller predicts that buyers will some...