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...Christopher Porterfield, in planning the cover story on TV Producers Bud Yorkin and Norman Lear, skirted the problem. One of the sections he presides over as a senior editor is Show Business & TV. He assigned himself to write the story, then served as his own editor. No one could quarrel with his credentials in either role. Since childhood he has been a committed fan and sometime practitioner of the performing arts. "When I was a moviegoing youth," he recalls, "I think I would have been willing to die for Ingrid Bergman." At Yale, Porterfield composed, arranged and conducted the music...
...heroine is a reluctant frontierswoman of the 1880s named Catherine Crocker. At 35-a refreshingly ripe age for a heroine-Catherine is marooned in a Wyoming mining camp with her boorish husband. After one quarrel too many, she decides to flag a train to civilization. But the train is robbed by four bandits whose hostage she becomes. Naturally, the leader is not your ordinary outlaw. Strong, silent and sexy, Jay Grobart is stealing in a good cause. Ten years earlier he killed his Indian wife, Cat Dancing, in a jealous rage. Having paid his debt to society, he is seeking...
Total abolition of prison still remains somewhat fanciful. As Illinois Psychiatrist Marvin Ziporyn observes, "We have some wolves among the human population. The prison system still contains 50% aggressive criminals." Some would quarrel with his percentage, but no expert argues that all the walls should come down. The point, says Harvard's Vorenberg, is that the emphasis should shift; every prison administrator ought to be saying: "How many of them need to be here...
...voters to expect. The entire federal "take" under McGovern's anti-loophole raid on personal incomes over $50,000, for example, would meet only about a third of the federal deficit expected in fiscal 1975, unless federal spending is reduced. Thus one great danger of a prolonged campaign quarrel over tax reform aimed at a relative few is that it may obscure the more important question of whether the nation is willing to accept a necessary higher tax rate...
...Subsequently Professors Cleland and Kafatos and I met in a group with everyone who had submitted a proposal and from this group the three of us chose the 19 Teaching Fellows who ended up teaching the 17 sections of Natural Sciences 26 this spring. I have no quarrel with Mr. Lubow's quote that Joroff "seemed very competent." The other quotes attributed to me are not to be taken literally...