Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would stick to their specific demands-that the U.S. sever its relations with Taiwan, abrogate a 1954 defense treaty and remove its remaining 1,165 servicemen from the island. But Vance hoped that Peking's new rulers might stand still for U.S. retention of some sort of special role in the future of the island. Hua's statement seemed to make it plain that they would...
...says, often are effective in primitive cultures because they produce a social isolation that makes illness more likely, and religion has traditionally promoted good health by providing companionship and hope. The lesson for America's doctors, he believes, is that an old-fashioned bedside manner plays a crucial role in the recovery of patients. It may be counterproductive, he says, to send patients away with pills when what they need is human contact...
Money has never mattered to Freddie," adds Mike Dann, Silverman's mentor and the man who preceded him as CBS's top programmer. "What he really wanted was respect for the tremendous role he was playing in the company. Freddie quit almost 250 times at CBS, but, far more important, during at least half his time there I can count three network presidents who wanted to fire him." Silverman's own explanation for his leave-taking is the most poignant: "I found I wasn't laughing any more...
Other MTM regulars have found jobs. On The Betty White Show on CBS, the former Happy Homemaker and Georgia Engel, the bubbleheaded wife of Newscaster Ted Baxter, reappear as TV actress and her bubbleheaded roommate. In We've Got Each Other, CBS tries a tamer version of the role-reversal ploy that flopped in All That Glitters. Here, hubby does the housework while wife trudges off to the photography studio. CBS's On Our Own shows what happens when two young girls get into the advertising business...
DIED. Sebastian Cabot, 59, portly, bearded British actor best known for his role as French, the butler-nanny on TV's A Family Affair; of a stroke; in Victoria, B.C. Amiable and urbane, Cabot once said: "I like to think of myself as a rather dashing figure, like Falstaff...