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...Best of the West, ABC is making another error by invoking yet again the "gang comedy" spirit of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Ed Weinberger and Stan Daniels, producers of Moore's show, Taxi and The Associates, should know by now that the basic format-a bland central character surrounded by screwballs -works only when the star has a patient and loyal following, as Moore did. Even with the best of casting, the TV audience hardly needs another gang comedy, certainly not a spoof western. Satire, like sacrilege, derives its impact from audience belief in the significance of what...
...Harvard defense tightened--Andy Nolan stopping Bennett after a one-yard gain, then a gang of tacklers holding Walker to four on second down--and after Walker carried to the ten on third down, Army was faced with its second fourth down of the drive...
Based on their faith in the power of the medical fraternity, the four doctors composing recommendations for convicted gang-rapist Arif Hussain believed they were incurring no real risk of punishment for their actions on behalf of a friend...
...voters-as well as some Labor M.P.s-could be expected to defect to the Social Democrats, who are already the most potent new force to arrive on the British political scene since the Labor Party itself was formed in 1900. The S.D.P. was founded last spring by the so-called Gang of Four-former Labor Cabinet Ministers Williams, Roy Jenkins, David Owen and William Rodgers-after longstanding differences between Labor's left and right wings finally seemed irreconcilable. The Social Democrats now have only 16 M.P.s-15 disaffected Laborites and one ex-Tory-but have built up wide public support...
...lavish prime-rib meal (for which the jurors had to ante up because the cost exceeded the dinner allowance of $16), plus weekly shopping trips for snacks and toilet articles. But everywhere the jurors went, the deputies went too. All the defendants had been members of Chicago street gangs, and the authorities did not want to take any chances on attacks or disruptions by other gang members. "It was like a giant baby-sitting service," says Vacek...