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...typically earthy metaphors, White House Press Secretary Jody Powell last week likened the reporters trailing Bert Lance to a group of over-adrenalized bird dogs. "You feed 'em and groom 'em and exercise 'em for six months," said Powell. "And then you finally turn 'em loose and they piss all over the truck and bite roots and eat butterflies. They go crazy...
Yeah, Joe says, they're the teams to beat, or somethin' like that. They gotta be reckoned with, since they won last year and all, so here's Joe reckonin' with 'em, but I know--since me and Joe are old buddies and we discussed these things in the past--I know that Joe's all happy inside...
...just thinkin', yeah, we'll play it cozy for a little bit, let Yale and Brown get a little fat around the temples, but when the time comes, why Joe, he'll be ready for 'em. You just wait...
Action-adventure Rough-'em-up shows have not really 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...
Linowitz joined Career Diplomat Bunker, 83, who had been in charge of negotiations since 1973. They made a formidable team that Latin America called "Hit 'em high, Hit 'em low." Linowitz kept pressing hard, talking fast, rarely letting up. "He works with all his heart and lungs," said his admiring adversary Escobar. More low-keyed and taciturn, Bunker was an inspired contriver of compromises. He also defused arguments by occasionally dozing off?or seeming...