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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dogs can ever be proved guilty of carrying an MS-related virus and what that virus may be are still open questions. Most veterinary authorities maintain that the evidence collected so far is not strong enough for pet owners to become alarmed. Even so, MS virology researchers intend to follow up the new scent...
Miniseries Thanks to Roots, the networks are rushing through bestsellers faster than an Evelyn Wood graduate. In addition to Washington: Behind Closed Doors, ABC will crank out mini-series based on Gail Sheehy's Passages and Herman Wouk's The Winds of War. Roots II will follow Kunta Kinte's descendants into modern times...
Young said his mission was to "put together a comprehensive approach" to Caribbean policy and not to come on like a dollar-wielding "Big Daddy". But increased aid will follow-especially for Jamaica and Guyana. Relations with both countries have been strained in recent years, partly because of the leftist convictions of Prime Minister Michael Manley of Jamaica and Prime Minister Forbes Burnham of Guyana, and partly because of the two leaders' independent stance in pursuing good relations with Cuba. As Young assured a Guyanese audience, "past difficulties" would not stand in the way of "common agreement...
...American Broadcasting Co., probably the most cynical of networks, regularly brings us something called The Wide World of Sports, which includes Demolition Derby. I cannot follow the rules of Demolition Derby. The idea seems to be to drive automobiles into each other until all but one are broken. The apostle of this glorious venture, Roone Arledge, has lately been elevated to direct ABC news...
...root for the Ponca City Eagles. In Brooklyn, you could pull for the Dodgers or, more parochially, for the Nine representing the Union Gas Co. Now, assisted by favorable tax laws and network money from NBC, the major leagues have carved the country into 26 franchises. No one can follow the casts of 26 separate teams, scattered from Seattle to Atlanta, but the networks focus on the teams that win. Everywhere, town baseball is dead...