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...Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) had invited Bok to appear and participate in what became a lively and at times heated half-hour interchange with divestment activists in front of his Massachusetts Hall office starting at 3 p.m. yesterday...
Calling the televised half-hour debate, a "verygood second- best alternative," Peck-Gray said:"The forum does not understand his reasons for notparticipating in the alternative debate format...
Some Harvard men say they chose to make the half-hour trip because they want a change from Cambridge social life. Going to Wellesley "is a great way to get away from things here," says A. Cab Vinton...
...impossible to say. WBBM's news broadcasts, once ranked No. 1, have slipped to second place behind ABC-owned WLS. But the decline began several years ago, when Kurtis left for the CBS Morning News. WLS's potent schedule (the hugely popular Wheel of Fortune appears opposite the second half-hour of WBBM's 6 p.m. news show) and its vastly improved news programs have further siphoned off WBBM's audience. The CBS station has also been bedeviled by internal squabbling so severe that a shoving match once broke out in the newsroom. If Jackson and PUSH spread their campaign...
Ratings, however, are not the only explanation for the sitcom's resurgence. Half-hour comedies are becoming more attractive to the networks because of a dispute with Hollywood producers over the rising costs of hour-long action- adventure shows. Network payments do not fully cover the cost of making these series; production companies recoup their money by selling the reruns later in syndication. But hour series are not doing well on the rerun market, and some major studios are threatening to bow out of making them unless the networks pick up more of the cost...