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...bureaucrat is seldom seen without a pen-or with a dream...
Wednesday, October 5 BATMAN (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* Shelley Winters is a guest villainess as the matriarch of a gaggle of gunmen in "The Greatest Mother of Them All." Throw her in jail, and before anyone can say "Gleeps!" she takes over the pen-warden and all. Fear not. The dynamic duo bat down this Mommaniac...
...speeches. Given the swollen staffs of specialists that surround most campaigners nowadays, the endeavor seems anachronistic. Yet, true enough, Reagan sits day after day on his campaign plane or bus hunched over 3-in. by 5-in. index cards, laboriously printing capital letters with a nylon-tip pen-"my speech for the next town." He has a kind of mental Erector set of phrases, figures and gags that he has used hundreds of times to fit any occasion...
...make ban, pan, ran, bat, pat, rat, bag and rag. As each word flashes on the screen, the taped voice pronounces it. Then, for example, the computer's taped voice asks the student to touch the word ran on the screen with a "light pen." A correct response brings an encouraging "Yes. That's correct...
Each week during the soccer season, millions of Britons take pen in hand to calculate which games, of some several dozen each Saturday, are most likely to end in ties. The sacred ritual can keep a devotee busy all week with form sheets and result charts, and some are known to resort to the sliderule, the abacus or even tea leaves. For a bet in the football pools is matched only by the Irish Sweepstakes as the gambling world's biggest play, bringing a lucky winner tax-free riches well worth a lifetime of concentrated, calculating devotion...