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...still rising at an uncomfortable 8.8% annual rate. Though economists have been predicting for months that interest rates would drop, the cost of money remains stubbornly high. Two-year Treasury notes were auctioned last week at a record price of 15.92%. The towering charges for borrowing money sent the Dow Jones stock average skidding to 924, its lowest point of the year...
...such products as Pampers and Cheer, revealed that over the past year it had withdrawn its sponsorship from some 50 episodes. SmithKline, which advertises Contac and Dietac, responded to CBTV by expressing its concern in writing to the networks. A few other companies, including Gillette, Phillips Petroleum and Dow Chemical, took the precaution of getting in touch with CBTV. The judgment conveyed to Phillips Petroleum Media Relations Representative Jim Daniels: "We were pretty good for sex, middle of the road for violence and bad for profanity...
...recently received 'thousands" of Christian brochures, some with accompanying letters, a pattern familiar to networks and rarely taken seriously: almost all were protesting Love, Sidney, a new situation comedy that is being considered for NBC's fall schedule with a homosexual as the title character. Dow Chemical, which was listed as the second "least constructive" advertiser in a December 1980 report by Wildmon, has received about 100 letters of protest...
...honors last week in the 16-to 19-year-old category of the quadrennial Moscow International Ballet Competition, the first American to be so honored. "We didn't go for fire-works," says Amanda of her final-round pas de deux from Sleeping Beauty with Partner Simon Dow, 25. "We strove for purity." In a rare bow to a Western performer, TASS noted, "Her dancing was marked by spirituality, lyricism and purity of form." Audiences wholeheartedly agreed, giving her frequent ovations and besieging her with autograph requests when she left the Bolshoi Theater. Though the victory will most likely...
...computer, and next week Wildmon will disclose which shows the volunteers-and the computers-found most objectionable. Some hints are in his newsletter, which he has suitably titled NFD Informer. On the basis of last fall's programs, Revlon was declared the "least constructive" sponsor, followed by Dow Chemical, Noxell, Gulf + Western and the Beecham Group. Some of the "least constructive" shows have already been canceled because of low ratings, but among those returning are Taxi, Three's Company, Laverne & Shirley and The Dukes of Hazzard. Wildmon will do more than name offending shows, however. Some...