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Rarely has a show fallen so far so fast, and last week the network scrambled to repair it. Out went Dick Ebersol, senior executive in charge of the show, who had picked Norville and who graciously, if inescapably, took the blame for the decline that followed. (Ebersol remains head of NBC Sports.) On June 4, in will come a third host, the amiable Joe Garagiola, a onetime catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals who was one of the show's stalwarts from 1969 to 1973. "It's incredible that I could come back," says Garagiola, 64, who was dropped...
...They're trying to repair the problem by coming at the wrong end," says Joel Segal, an executive vice president of the ad agency McCann-Erickson. "I don't see how bringing in a third person will help bring up the first...
Under the new law, anyone performing repair service on air conditioners and refrigerators that use CFCs is required to recover and recycle the harmful chemicals. It also bans the use of ozone-damaging halons in fire extinguishers, and phases out all use of other harmful substances...
...other specialty of the house is politics. The National Assembly is just a few blocks down the boulevard, and when sessions run late, legislators traditionally repair to Lipp's for sustenance, discussion and intrigue. One of the regulars over the years has been Francois Mitterrand, now, of course, President of the Republic. Any cafe that can claim a President among its customers has little need of further endorsements...
...more than supervise my quarantine. From the first days, we detected signs that strangers were entering our apartment. We would find our tape recorders, radios and typewriter damaged and had to repair them many times. At first, we assumed that some of the policemen were letting the KGB agents into our apartment; then we realized it was the landlady. Whenever I went out, I took irreplaceable notes, documents and books with...