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...yearn for a society-wide reaffirmation of the tradition of childhood innocence. They think children should be shielded from too much worldly knowledge too soon. Because the conservatives place so much emphasis on family and parenthood, they are ready to sacrifice adults' freedom of choice. There is a gruff, honest passion in many of their complaints. Says the Rev. Albert Gagnier of Brockton, Mass., a Moral Majority member and father of three: "I paid money for my TV set just like everybody else and I expect to get good programming out of it." So long as the air waves...
DIED. Jim Davis, 67, gruff, rangy character actor who played Jock Ewing, the oil-baron patriarch on TV's top-rated Dallas; after surgery for a perforated ulcer: in Los Angeles, Calif. Davis, who worked as a circus tent rigger and construction laborer before catching on as a western type in Hollywood in the 1940s, was not in Dallas' final episode of the current season, which aired last week. There are no plans to recast Jock Ewing, who will be written out of the show before shooting for the new season begins this month...
...lineup contains 1977 Rookie-of-the-Year Centerfielder Andre Dawson, 26, two Rookie Pitchers-of-the-Year (Rogers, 31, and Bill Gullickson, 22) and another star in the making, Leftfielder Tim Raines, 21. The team, painstakingly assembled through the farm system and presided over by Manager Dick Williams, a gruff but gifted fundamentalist, has produced a new top-flight player each year since the mid-'70s. Now there are enough in the lineup to perhaps tip the balance in a highly competitive division...
George Meany, 85, gruff, cigar-puffing chieftain of U.S. labor who rose from Bronx plumber to president of the AFL-CIO from its birth, in 1955, to 1979. Whether battling for fuller union lunch pails, assailing Communism, or dismissing critics who accused him of being too conservative, Meany lectured Presidents and public alike with equal bluntness...
...Budweiser's the sponsor, right, so I say, "Tell me this (adopts gruff Bronx street accent and yells) 'ANOTHER COLD ONE, MISS KHAMBATTA? TWO MORE COLD ONES FOR MISS KHAMBATTA. HEY, BILLY, YOU WANT ANOTHER ONE HERE? SO, BILLY, TELL ME, IS THERE ANY BEER IN OUTTA SPACE?' He was awful...