Word: primed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sources, who asked to remain anonymous, said the language being drafted is designed to be broad enough to gain the approval of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin as well as to draw Jordan eventually into the U.S.-led peace process...
...saga of Master Programmer Fred Silverman. Newly enthroned as president of third-place NBC, Silverman just will not sit still. Last week on the eve of the new season's first premieres, he upstaged the entire industry by ripping up his own previously announced schedule. Silverman changed the prime-time lineup on five out of seven nights, shifting the long-running Saturday Night at the Movies to Wednesday and announcing a smorgasbord of "stunts" (movies and specials) for the fall. Says Mike Dann, ex-CBS program chief and onetime Silverman boss: "Never before have there been so many major...
...continuing characters ensure bad ratings, yet that didn't bother Silverman when he announced Lifeline last spring. "You've got to take chances," he told NBC's skeptical affiliates. "Lifeline could be the single show on any network this fall that changes the face of prime-time television...
WKRP in Cincinnati (Sept. 18, CBS, 8 p.m.). If this Mary Tyler Moore pro duction can maintain the level of its premiere, it will be the funniest series to hit prime-time TV since The Mary Tyler Moore Show itself. Set at a money-losing radio station that dumps its "elevator music" format for top-40 rock, WKRP is a sitcom dream. Its laughs derive from character rather than contrived gags; its cast is an ensemble of inventive comic actors. The first episode, which establishes the premise and players with dazzling efficiency, is an almost steady howl...
...heart attack; in Salisbury. One of Rhodesia's chief strategists in its fight against U.N. trade sanctions, the British-born Wrathall frequently lambasted London for participating in the embargo that followed his country's declaration of independence in 1965. Appointed to the figurehead presidency by Prime Minister Ian Smith in 1976, Wrathall had been expected to vacate his office at year's end, in favor of a black Rhodesian...