Word: robins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final day of the tournament, the Crimson fishermen had the ignominious distinction of failing to hook a single fish. "It's just unheard of not to catch a fish all day," Zewinski says. Actually, the team was not completely shut out, since Zewinski caught a 6-in. sea robin and hauled in a large clam shell from the ocean bottom. The squad also spotted a female whale but decided not to give chase...
Mork & Mindy (Thursday, ABC, 8 p.m. E.D.T.). Were it not for one inspired stroke of casting, this sci-fi sitcom would be indistinguishable from the rest of the kiddies' drivel aired by ABC at 8 each night. Robin Williams, a new young comic, sends Mork & Mindy into hyperspace. The show casts him in the role of Mork, a friendly alien who settles in Boulder, Colo., with Earthling Mindy (Pam Dawber), after leaving the planet Ork. It's a premise more appropriate to Saturday morning TV than prime time, but Williams transforms trivia into a tour de force...
...Robin Hood Judge," the mostly approving state press called him. But the state's Judicial Qualifications Commission charged Taunton, 39, with "conduct unbecoming a member of the judiciary" and a year ago sought to have him removed from the bench. The judge's compassion verged on bias, agreed the Florida Supreme Court last March, but it let Taunton off with a reprimand, calling his motives "wholesome and unselfish." Taunton is not a lawyer. A former high school principal and Methodist lay minister, he defends his leniency to the poor by quoting the Bible...
...behalf of one of the men the judge charged with suspect land dealings. Moore has been drumming up support from local merchants who would like to see Taunton ousted. He has also invested $150 in a red-white-and-blue floodlighted billboard on the main highway to Tallahassee. The Robin Hood Judge, meanwhile, was hand-painting campaign posters with his wife and teen-age son back at-what else-his log cabin home...
...that time, Robin Schmidt, vice president for government and community affairs, said Harvard would increase its payments to Boston if Fair Share could prove Harvard takes more from the city than it gives back in services and payments...