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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hall did not stay out of the talk-show ring for long. In 1986 he joined Marilyn McCoo as co-host of Solid Gold, a syndicated music show. Then he got a call from the Fox Network, asking him to be a last-minute replacement for Frank Zappa as fill-in host of The Late Show, which had just dumped Rivers, its original star. Hall's stint went so well that he was asked back twice the following week. Soon he was doing the program full time...
...Japanese islands but also stripped Manchuria of most of its heavy industrial equipment and shipped it back to the Soviet Union. In Eastern Europe not only did Soviet troops remain in large numbers, but Communists brutally subverted political parties and seized control of national police and military organizations to ring down the Iron Curtain. At the time, the war-weary West was in no mood to react...
...find plenty to chew on here, since the intrusive survey asks its recipients how old they were when they first made love (51% were under 18); whether they look behind the shower curtain or door when using someone else's bathroom (7% do); whether, if they found a diamond ring, they would attempt to locate the owner (79% would); and whether they eat corn on the cob side to side or in circles (for those who can't wait to find out, fully 80% eat it in circles...
...Borchgrave blames the Dukakis error on deadline pressures. "It's one boo-boo that we are faulted for every time somebody comes to interview us," he complains. But that was not the only slip. Last June the newspaper teased readers with a story about a homosexual call-boy ring that allegedly involved "key officials of the Reagan and Bush Administrations." Only minor Administration officials were identified...
Gobie has charged that Frank was aware he was operating a sex-for-hire ring out of Frank's Capitol Hill apartment. He also alleged that he and Frank had sex in the House gymnasium. Frank has denied both of those charges...