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...crime shows want to impress Minow too. The FCC chairman thinks television is unfit for human consumption, does he? A cultural slag heap? They'll show him. Result: the cultured, well-heeled flatfoot. Robert Taylor's retooled Detectives (NBC) now wear button-down collars, glen plaid suits, and shoot professorially from the mouth. "A beatnik," said one Taylor gumshoe last week, "is a vagrant with intellectual pretensions.'' ABC's The New Breed celebrates Lt. Price Adams (Leslie Nielsen) and the new, soft-spoken young cops of the Los Angeles Police Department, college men and nearly...
Nagle & Co. hacked their way through the jungle. They avoided all trails for fear of being spotted and captured. Unwittingly, they spent their first night atop a jungle ant heap. "The ants had only one idea," says Nagle. "They were ferocious. They wanted to eat you alive." The second night was spent on a coffee-table-sized ledge leaning across a jungle river. Icy water sprayed Nagle all night, and leeches swarmed over him. One leech began crawling up Nagle's leg. "I knew I had to stop it," he said. "But I didn't dare move quickly...
...These boys," said the visiting professor, "are hot. They are brilliant. They are right on top of the heap." The oddly unpedantic judgment was prompted by a concert last week in Rome's isth century Palazzo Pio. Performing were four young men who make up the American Jazz Ensemble-a group that has set avant-garde beards to wagging the length of Italy...
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...very much impressed by your article "Top of the Heap." I was particularly elated over John Vaio, who, it was stated, learned Latin, Greek, French and some Chinese...