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Another quiz show currently exploiting TV nostalgia is Family Feud, whose host is the oleaginous Richard Dawson, formerly the scheming Cockney Newkirk on Hogan 's Heroes. This daily show has been featuring sitcom families such as the Bradys of The Brady Bunch and the Cleavers from Leave It to Beaver. During the program, the performers behave much as they did on their original shows, fostering the illusion that TV families never break up or die, but live on blissfully in real life as well as on reruns...
...FEUD by Thomas Berger; Delacorte; 265 pages...
General Hospital and Family Feud had better get ready for some heavy competition, because the state House of Representatives will move onto daytime television by January with live, "gavel-to-gavel" broadcasts from the floor...
...were so many Republicans wearing frowns last week? Because the Grand Old Party, badly split over the Administration's deficit-plagued budget and on whether to withhold taxes on interest and dividends, was having a family feud. Cabinet members were fighting with each other. So, too, were presidential aides. The President was scrapping with Republican leaders in the Senate, and G.O.P. Senators were slipping into squabbling factions. The infighting threatened to throw the congressional budget-making machinery, which is squeaky and erratic to begin with, into chaos...
...bitter feud that has split one of the South's best-known institutions of higher learning swirls around President Hanly Funderburk, 51, who took office in April 1980. Funderburk's policies have sapped morale, antagonized many members of the faculty and administrative staff, raised the specter of political control and brought into question the mission of the 127-year-old institution in the Alabama town that bears its name. Three vice presidents have resigned in protest, and the faculty has twice passed no-confidence votes against the president, the last by a 3-to-l margin. In November...