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...everyone scatters; still that is not the end of Thursday's nightly news. At 10:15 the chief producers hold a conference call from their homes to review the show just finished and plan the one to follow. Tonight, for example, there are some harsh words about the O'Brien piece on pornography-"It didn't tell much about what happened," Kaplan says-and there are questions about why there was no report on a $700 million settlement that American Oil Co. made with the Government to satisfy price-gouging charges. The answer, that...
...brand Tsingtao, imported by Monarch Import Co. of New York from the Shandong province of northern China. Monarch took full-page ads in the New York Times offering Tsingtao as a punishing alternative to Stolichnaya and extolling the Chinese vodka's delicate taste, although some drinkers find it harsh. An 80-proof fifth sells for a few cents more than Stolichnaya. The copy of one scrappy ad last week had members of Moscow's Politburo smirking confidently that Americans would not "give up Russian vodka just as they haven't given up imported crude...
Many Americans will find Solzhenitsyn's views too harsh, his vision too chilling. But the reflections of Russia's greatest living writer on today's crisis merit wide attention...
...Findlay College's "It's great to be a big fish in a small college" recruitment package, featuring Charley the Tuna. College marketting spawns pseudo-events like meetings on curriculum reform, which, she feels, are "principally planned, planted or excited for the purpose of being reported or reproduced...The harsh truth is that all this activity is generally a waste of time as far as providing better education for students...
DIED. George Harsh, 72, convicted murderer who was pardoned in 1940 after saving the life of a fellow inmate (by performing an emergency appendectomy) and who helped 80 fellow P.O.W.s to tunnel out of a Nazi prison camp in 1944, an incident that was the basis for the film The Great Escape; after a long illness; in Toronto. In his later years, Harsh became a spokesman against the death penalty, a fate he had only narrowly evaded himself because, he wrote, "I came from a white, wealthy and influential family...