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...were surprised to find that overall density of population in a project is not a critical factor. On the other hand, the design-where you put people-is crucial. Height itself is one major element. We discovered that high-rise projects, like the Rosen houses in Philadelphia and Van Dyke in New York, suffered much worse crime rates than those in some adjacent projects, which had similar densities and social types but were built low and broken up into smaller units. The reason is that as buildings get bigger and higher, they become more and more anonymous-no defensible space...
...Dead" for an hour. The songs were those later to comprise Workingman's Dead and American Beauty, along with other country and spiritual tunes. When they sang "Swing Low Sweet Chariot," a little fellow, not much more than five feet tall, with long blond hair and a blond van dyke, sang bass...
...Here is Mike Dann, when he was senior vice president of CBS, asking his underlings for suggestions to keep the network No. 1. Their contributions: "Use soap-opera aspects of Peyton Place in all our daytime promos." "We should get Dick Van Dyke to host Born Free." "Ice shows are doing well. Sullivan can do Holiday...
This go-round, Van Dyke is cast as the host of a TV talk show in Phoenix, Ariz.; Hope Lange, after two seasons of sublimation in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, plays Mary Tyler Moore. In the witless premiere, Van Dyke was stuck with one joke, and one as grizzled as his new sideburns: the recidivism of reformed smokers. But the second episode-concerning the humiliation of a local-station headliner screen-testing for a network slot-portended a return to form by TV's consummate situation comedian and by the series' witty "creative consultant," Carl Reiner...
...second segment, she got unprofessionally overinvolved in the tax problems of a home-distiller in Scotland. Both scripts were absurdly implausible and unworthy of the performer's literacy and charm. But Executive Producer Sheldon Leonard, who in better days produced I Spy and the old Dick Van Dyke Show, insists that Shirley will be the first TV comedienne to have an obviously healthy sex life. There is no sign of exactly what Leonard has in mind, but on Women's Lib terms, Shirley's consciousness is already raised several levels above that of CBS's Doris...