Word: geralds
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...annual fade-in of the fall television season begins, ABC -under the guidance of its programming czar Fred Silverman-is the network to beat in the deadly serious game of prime-time ratings. Our cover story this week, written by Show Business Writer Gerald Clarke and edited by Senior Editor Martha Duffy, traces how TV's perennial No. 3 network overtook and passed its larger rivals, and examines the television industry today...
...President focused his first selling efforts on two influential Republicans. Twice last week he spoke on the phone to Gerald Ford. First Carter called the former President at his vacation retreat in Vail, Colo. The next afternoon Ford called Carter at Camp David; the President thanked him "for this example of bipartisan support." In between conversations, Ford had been briefed for 90 minutes by Sol Linowitz (who had negotiated the terms, along with Ellsworth Bunker), and by Gen. George S. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. At the White House, Carter had former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger...
...treaty through Congress?the toughest assignment Jordan has been given since getting Carter elected. A White House task force under Jordan fired off wires to all 534 members of Congress, urging them to approach the treaty with open minds. White House emissaries were planning to ask for help from Gerald Ford, Nelson Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger. Says a senior White House adviser: "A major job of lobbying and education must be done immediately ?fireside chats, the works, or we're going to lose on the Hill...
...called interstate gas, with the now familiar result: the major oil companies began to import cheaper fuel from the Middle East, and domestic exploration declined. What convinced many oilmen that domestic exploration would again be worthwhile was the explosion in world oil prices and the campaign promises by both Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter to deregulate natural-gas prices...
Sociobiologists?whose growing ranks include some 250 biologists, zoologists and social scientists?argue that without consideration of biology, the study of human culture makes no sense. Indeed, sociobiology has significant implications for most areas of human concern?from education to relations between the sexes. Says Harvard Physicist Gerald Holton: "It's a breathtaking ambition . . . as if Sigmund Freud had set out to subsume all of Darwin, Joyce, Einstein, Whitehead and Lenin." Robert Trivers, a Harvard biologist and leading sociobiology theorist, makes a bold prediction: "Sooner or later, political science, law, economics, psychology, psychiatry and anthropology will all be branches...