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Economist Edward Denison of the liberal-oriented Brookings Institution calculates that Government regulations covering everything from shipping to the environment lowered output per man-hour in private industry by 1.8% between 1967 and 1975. One COWPS member estimates that regulation adds from .5% to 1% to inflation, and that new regulations this year will raise business costs by $5 billion...
Later this year ABC and NBC will introduce their own versions of the magazine format, which is basically an hour-long collection of documentary-type reports. In addition, Producer David Susskind is developing a personality-profile TV show for CBS based on PEOPLE magazine, and stations across the nation are pasting together local variations of the magazine genre. At this rate television may soon offer more "magazines" than the corner newsstand...
Perhaps the most ambitious entry in the 60-minute dash is ABC's new 20/20, an hour-long encyclopedia of news, personality sketches, investigative reports, cultural and sociological features and satirical skits, possibly by Chicago's Second City troupe. The show is expected to appear in June. Executive Producer Bob Shanks (ABC's Good Morning, America, public television's Great American Dream Machine) has approached at least a dozen candidates for the host job, including Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee, who turned down a $5,000-a-week salary and a promise that he could...
...easy," said Joanne Lutz, a Bridgeport, Conn., housewife, after giving birth to her first child three years ago. "A few pushes and there he was." Her second delivery was not so simple. Mrs. Lutz had been in labor less than an hour, when monitors detected an irregular infant heartbeat and other signs of fetal distress. A difficult natural birth might have produced a brain-damaged or even stillborn baby. So her doctor promptly performed a caesarean section, safely lifting out a 6-lb. girl. Says Mrs. Lutz: "A scar is a small price to pay for a healthy baby...
DIED. Admiral Sir Henry Ruthven Moore, 91, indomitable British seaman who distinguished himself in two world wars; in Wateringbury, England. Moore won the Distinguished Service Order as a young navigator for destroyer flotillas at the Battle of Jutland in World War I. But his finest hour came in April 1944, when, as a vice admiral, he directed a crippling aircraft carrier attack on Hitler's last remaining giant battleship, the 45,000-ton Tirpitz, as it lay in a Norwegian fjord...