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...wrong hands," Gauld likes to say. When he finds that a student has what he considers a "bad attitude," Gauld may order him to wear a sign saying I ACT LIKE A BABY, or tell him to dig a 6-ft. by 6-ft. trench and then fill it up. He has even conducted a public paddling ceremony at Hyde...
...show of highlights, which would have lasted about two minutes. To be sure, PBS was operating under restraints. It had been forbidden to show the guests gulping and gnawing, leaving it with more than an hour-long hole right in the middle of the program, which it chose to fill with innocuous studies of the British monarchy's past and future. At times, the severe White House restrictions on camera placement left viewers with the suspicion that the show had been staged by Andy Warhol. Finally, PBS could obviously do nothing about the choice of a tired and tedious...
...same time. Today the recovery is sufficiently uneven-Britain and Italy are notable laggards-to prevent the kind of frantic scramble for raw materials that went on three years ago. In addition, many commodity producers are still operating well below capacity and have room to expand output to fill demand. For example, production in copper-mining countries has been running about 15% below normal levels for more than a year...
With 21 sports on the Olympic agenda, ABC could fill the time merely by televising athletes in action, an approach that would produce a yawn heard round the world. Says the network's planning director for the Games, Geoff Mason: "The Olympics are much more than two weeks of moving bodies. This is a convocation of mankind unique in the world, and we have to get that across. The participants are talented people, and to bring them out as people is as important as broadcasting the events." ABC will use interviews with nearly 70 athletes that were filmed during...
LINDY BOGGS, 60, the Louisiana Congresswoman who will serve as chairperson of the proceedings. Corinne Claiborne Boggs was elected in 1973 to fill the seat held for years by her husband, House Majority Leader Hale Boggs, after he disappeared in a plane over Alaska. Though she was born on a plantation and has something of the manner of a Southern belle, Lindy Boggs is an astute politician. She has been elected twice to the House by overwhelming majorities. She began her political career as a Democratic precinct captain in 1938, managed her husband's campaigns and will be attending...