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...ends. The gravediggers on Hart Island repair to a black-and-white television set to watch a rerun of Bonanza. Outside, in a corner of the field, last light leaves a stone on which somebody etched, "Cry not for us for we are with the Father. No longer do we cast shadows on the ground as you do. We are at peace...
...Queen Elizabeth, the California weather was a surprise. For residents, it was a grim and ugly rerun of the storms that had lashed the state in late January. Only this time it was worse. Last week's floods, high waves and winds left at least 16 dead, caused more than $160 million in damage, and forced 10,000 residents to flee their threatened or damaged homes. "I'm getting tired of this," said San Francisco Meteorologist Chuck Terrell...
Meanwhile, shuttle driver Joseph Freeman '86 relaxes inside Currier Hose, watching a David Letterman rerun. When Letterman finishes his interview with Mr. T. Freeman glances at his watch, and heads out for his final run of the night...
...that ad budgets have escaped the Reagan Administration's ax. The Internal Revenue Service will be forced to rerun old ads this month urging Americans to file early; there is no money in the IRS budget for new advertising. The gutted Energy Department was not was not heard from at all this winter in matters of conservation, as it was during the Carter years. Gone, too, is the voice of the almost extinct Consumer Product Safety Commission, which once advertised appeals for safer lawn mowers, chain saws and children's clothing...
...hits that have gone to syndication heaven have come back to haunt the networks. MASH, whose first ten seasons are spinning out on local stations, consistently wins higher ratings in New York City than the networks' nightly news shows. One recent Thursday in the Los Angeles market, a rerun of Three's Company on a local independent station was the top-rated show of the night, higher than Hill Street Blues, Simon & Simon or Magnum, P.I. Says Frederick S. Pierce, president and chief operating officer of ABC, Inc.: "The impact on our ratings is less from...