Word: knighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston are being given as little as five days to pay for shipments. At the same time, unpaid bills from lallygagging consumers are piling up as never before. "I got more customers out 90 days than I care to talk about," says Litchfield Oil Co.'s Ken Knight of Lowell, Mass. For all of New England's 2,200 fuel oil companies, unpaid accounts are running from 17% above normal for larger dealers up to a ruinous 38% for small operators. Since October, 26 dealers have been forced to go out of business because their cash flow dried...
Despite the pressures on them, most fuel and utility companies are willing to strike a deal with dilatory customers. But with fuel consumption running 20% ahead of normal in some areas and costs soaring, the bite remains real enough. Says Litchfield's Knight: "It's a real dog-eat-dog winter...
...taping of the 168th and final episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, scheduled to air March 19. Even such spin-off graduates as Valerie Harper and Cloris Leachman were written into the farewell show. How to end it? New management fires everyone but Anchorman Ted Baxter (Ted Knight). At a post-taping, post-mortem dinner, Mary and the rest of the cast sat through the outtakes of lines that were blown over the years. Said one bemused cast member: "After watching that, it seemed a miracle we ever got on the air at all." Now that...
...Korean studies. Gregory Henderson, political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul (1958-63) and now a professor at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Diplomacy characterized the KTA as "a Korean government agency... responsive to the overall political planning being conducted by the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA)" (Knight News Service, Nov. 19, 1976). What can Harvard's relationship to the KTA and through it to the present regime in South Korea mean? Let me say what it means...
...Gladys Knight, lead singer of the Pips, here makes what might loosely be called her acting debut. She moves through her role with an unfailingly cheerful, nose-crinkling smile but with almost none of the slick exuberance and sensuality of her musical performances. Occasionally, when the script calls for her to ride somewhere in a plane or car, the camera dwells on the passing snowscapes and Gladys...