Word: feb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interesting thing about TIME's article "Cult Wars on Capitol Hill" [Feb. 19] was not the hearing on cults by Senator Dole, but the fact that Cynthia Slaughter reconverted to the Moonies. If a person is deprogrammed from a cult, is there anything that the Christian community can offer? Apparently Slaughter didn't think...
...Kuwait, Oil Minister Sheik Ali Khalifa al-Sabah declared a price increase of 9.3%, retroactive to Feb. 20. He blamed the decision on what he called price profiteering by oil companies, implying that if Big Oil was somehow ripping off the public, Kuwait was going to get in on that game...
...month of Sundays as the networks claw and kick for audiences Feb. 11, 1979, was not a date that most people remembered much past Feb. 11, 1979. But to the hundred or so top people in the television industry, it was Black Sunday, the costliest night in TV history. In their desperation to knock out one another during the February sweeps-those weeks when Nielsen and Arbitron take an elaborate TV census-the networks spent a reported $13 million on that Sunday night to throw their heaviest punches at one another. CBS led off with Gone With the Wind...
...results were not always predictable; some of the blockbusters failed to go off. On the other hand, the figures were rarely very surprising. On that famous night of Feb. 11, all the networks did well. ABC's Elvis! was on top with 39% of the audience, CBS and Gone With the Wind had 36%, and NBC with Cuckoo's Nest had 32%. (If that adds up to more than 100%, and it does, it means that some of the families polled had more than...
...sweeps ended last week, the networks counted their gains and losses, only to find that, as in a World War I battle, hardly any real estate had changed hands. All three were almost exactly where they had been on Feb. 1. ABC's position is so strong that the competition can huff and puff and threaten to blow its house down with expensive movies and miniseries, but for the foreseeable future it is likely to stay where...