Word: lineup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...programmers are like astrologers: every spring they nervously plan for the future by trying to predict what the viewing public will be buying in the fall. Since they all follow the same arcane guidelines, the Nielsen ratings, their predictions are usually much alike. As the networks completed their fall lineup last week, the pattern was clear: cops and comedy-and precious little in between...
Changes. NBC, which finished up the current season* slightly behind CBS, announced the biggest changes, with the introduction of nine new shows. Its old Tuesday night lineup, which included a movie and rotating news and documentary specials, will be thrown out entirely, and three crime-oriented hours will take its place. Four half-hour situation comedies will go into the schedule to replace such shows as Laugh-In, which is now only a tired reminder of the hit of the '60s, and Circle of Fear, which tried to be ghostly but was never more than ghastly. In The Magician...
...advocate of austerity, who will oversee the treasury and economics. Another is Mohammed Abdel Kader Hatem, who will control culture and information and sit in for Sadat as acting Premier when that becomes necessary. Next to Sadat, Hatem figures to be the most important man in the new Egyptian lineup...
Embarrassed police spoke with amazement of "dead ringers," "twins" and "doubles." In fact, however, the mix-up was merely a reminder of how frequently unreliable police lineups are for the purpose of identification. Only four months before, a Queens teen-ager was misidentified in another rape case. Leonard Gordon, Schrager's defense attorney, spent 20 years as a policeman. He notes that "police can often put pressure on a witness to clear up their caseload." They can press for a quick identification, fearing that the longer a witness mulls, the more likely he is to have doubts. Often others...
...Earl Warren's Supreme Court expressed its wariness of lineups by holding that an indicted suspect was entitled to have his lawyer present to prevent at least the obvious inequities. But the Burger Court last year cut into that right by refusing to apply it before the suspect has been indicted. Thus police now often delay formal charges until after the lineup...