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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trying to sell, the tube is summing up for you, putting events into a neat little packages that you can place in the memory bank of the '79 department. An extensive investigative reporting search has revealed that the decade ends after this year, offering a golden opportunity for any kind of summary. CBS will weigh in with two hours, 10-11 p.m. on the 28th and 29th, called "The Seventies: A CBS Retrospective." Harry Reasoner, who, in the course of that decade, has gone from CBS to ABC to CBS, will narrate. NBC Sports, continuing its annoying habit of making...

Author: By Jeff Toobin, | Title: How Television Steals Christmas | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

Irving likes to read from his most recent chapter-in-progress because "it's boring to read finished works--they're a dead issue. There's a different kind of self awareness that you get when you read to an audience than when you read to an old friend or your kids," he added...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Irving Slowly Writes His First Novel Since 'Garp' | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

Berrios said the U.S. Congress controls the Puerto Rican minimum wage and labor laws and added "They even tell us what kind of sausages we can eat. That's a colony--the U.S. commands everything in Puerto Rico...

Author: By David R. Merner, | Title: Puerto Rican Leader Attacks United States Domination | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

Instead of sending only career diplomats overseas, the former Celtic coach recommended hiring former athletes or "guys who just can't quite make the pros." And instead of supplying countries with unneeded hardware, he added, the government should ship basketballs("good American ones, the kind with the seams") and sneakers...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Red Auerbach Touts Hoop Diplomacy | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...decade after Apollo, other space motifs also abound. Battlestar Galactica cruisers must have caused problems at some point--each bears a red label announcing "Redesigned Toy-Missiles Cannot Be Launched." Kind of makes you wonder...

Author: By Bill Mckibben, | Title: Suckerman and His Friends | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

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