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...letters to the editor of Pravda serve as an important forum for Soviet citizens to air pet peeves, make suggestions and scold their less virtuous countrymen. "Every day in the school snack bar, Sasha gets change from a five-ruble bill," wrote a schoolteacher from the Moscow region earlier this year, complaining about how children today do not appreciate the value of a hard-earned ruble. "The parents aren't interested in how their children spend the remaining money." A lieutenant colonel stationed in Lithuania urged parents not to send money to their army sons, already well cared...
...former Chicago TV personality; a half-hour of sports at 11; and at 1 a.m. a celebrity interview show from Los Angeles with Lee Leonard, ex-host of NBC's Grandstand show. Scheduled throughout the day are reports on such topics as health and nutrition, law, fashion, pet care, astrology, gardening and home repairs. Turner has also signed up a roster of big-name commentators, including Senator Barry Goldwater, ex-Congresswoman Bella Abzug, Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader, former Treasury Secretary William Simon, Political Columnists Richard Reeves, Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, Psychologist Joyce Brothers and ERA Opponent Phyllis Schlafly...
After some intense lobbying, Carter's pet project passed over-whelmingly in the Senate and then squeaked thorugh the House by a slight margin...
Edward Kennedy on why he was tending a stranger's pet outside a primary polling place in Washington, D.C.: "I had to hold his dog to get his vote...
They read as follows: Cleveland Indians baseball, Ohio State football, the Cleveland Browns, Cavaliers, the old Crusaders and Barons, and so on until he reaches his pet hates, the University of Michigan football team and the New York Yankees...