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THICKER THAN WATER (ABC, Wednesday, 8-8:30 p.m. E.D.T.). The summer's nadir. Julie Harris and Richard Long battle various relatives and each other for the pickle-factory fortune of their crotchety, dying paterfamilias. Harris and Long struggle like a pair of flies in a glue pot trying to wrest laughs from lines about death and pickles...
...film, however, go into financing the "duds." Kirkland's box office successes this year will balance off the financial disasters of last year's East European series. Mankiewicz netted $400 on "The Graduate," just about enough to break even on their previous showings--which had reached a nadir the week before with a showing of "The Fly" to a grand total of three customers...
...This nadir of decadence...this feast of carrion and squalor...this Sodom and Gomorrah gone wild before the fire... this is one throat that deserves to be cut." With that, Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Joel Tyler ruled: "I readily perform the operation in finding the defendant guilty as charged...
...nadir came in 1958, when Pearson, newly named as leader of Canada's Liberal Party, lost an election to a Tory firebrand prairie lawyer named John Diefenbaker by the most lopsided margin in Canadian history. It was the first of four elections in a decade-long political duel between Mike and Dief. Pearson's liberals finally won more seats than Diefenbaker's conservatives in 1963, but for the next five years, Pearson's Cabinet seemed to lurch from one headline-making crisis to another. He survived each potential disaster, largely by leaving his ministers to fight...
...World War II probably marked the pinnacle of U.S. prestige; the height of the Viet Nam War may well have marked its nadir. Hamilton Fish Armstrong, retiring editor of Foreign Affairs, writes in the current issue: "The methods we have used in fighting the war have scandalized and disgusted public opinion in almost all foreign countries. Not since we withdrew into comfortable isolation in 1920 has the prestige of the U.S. stood...