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Desperate to survive cruel April, when he stands to lose big to Gerald Ford in New York, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, Reagan persuaded NBC to sell him a half-hour of prime time after the other two networks had turned him down. To make room, NBC pre-empted one of its turkeys, The Dumplings. Reagan spent twelve hours polishing several drafts and five hours taping the show at a Hollywood commercial studio...
...kept putting off an appearance until it was too late, explaining in the ad that they did not want their remarks to be edited. Said Mobil Spokesman Raymond D'Argenio: "We've been screwed too many times by people coming in here, talking to us for a half-hour or an hour and then excerpting two minutes of one of our guys scratching his nose...
Gamache said he waited a half-hour before voting...
K.O.K. has just learned about negative numbers. His experience is shared by elementary school children who-three times a week in Boston and four in Los Angeles-watch a new show, Infinity Factory, on their TV sets. Each half-hour program has a specific goal: to teach youngsters a mathematical concept, holding their attention with lively gimmicks that are reminiscent of those on Laugh-In and Sesame Street...
...illustrated account of a Luftwaffe flight lieutenant's career, and the 1976 presidential campaign, which he has been asked to cover for Rolling Stone-and will lampoon in Doonesbury. Every month about a dozen more newspapers sign up to receive Doonesbury, and Trudeau is working on an animated half-hour television special based on the strip. He also talks in block-letter bromides of moving to Boston some day, and forsaking the killing regimen of drawing Doonesbury for travel, study and writing...