Word: probed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apparent computer foul-up at NBC, this series, obviously intended to go with the cartoons on Saturday morning, is wasting an hour of prime evening viewing time. The story line, which appears to be stolen from rejected Man from U.N.C.L.E. scripts, follows the adventures of various agents of "Probe," an organization that saves the good people of the world from the bad people. Hugh O'Brian, who is supposed to be a former astronaut, stars as the agent in half the episodes, while Tony Franciosa, an ex-detective, and Doug McClure, an overweight, overage beachboy, split the rest...
Under the highly specific agreement, Soviet scientists will help American experts probe the air-pollution problems of St. Louis and then do the same in Leningrad. The water pollution of Lake Tahoe will be compared with that of Siberia's Lake Baikal. The capability of both nations to predict earth quakes will be tested along California's San Andreas Fault and in Tadzhikistan's Pamir Mountains. The murky waters of the Delaware and Potomac rivers will be analyzed, along with those of two Soviet rivers yet to be designated. More broadly, the general urban environmental problems...
Purcell's gingerly approach apparently stems from the fact that he faces a tough re-election fight in Texas and is not sure how his constituents view the issue. The ineptness of his probe has taken some steam out of other congressional groups interested in examining the deal. A subcommittee of the House Government Operations Committee, with far more expertise, has been waiting to dig deeper into the potential conflict-of-interest situation...
...examinations into the wheat deal are still in progress, however. Vice President Spiro Agnew last week announced that the FBI was investigating whether any large U.S. exporters had made illegal profits in the deal. That surprising concession led newsmen to check the FBI, where they were told no such probe had been directed. One day later, the FBI did get such an order from the Justice Department, creating a debate over whether this was done only because Agnew had mistakenly said it was under way or whether Agnew had merely misunderstood the timing. The Commodity Exchange Administration...
Newspaper post-mortems of the Saturday routs usually concern themselves solely with the victor, while the loser of the "no-contest" contest is rapidly forgotten. The omission is significant, for it seems to indicate an unwillingness to probe why it is necessary to run up such absurd scores...