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After performing the bizarre rite on Beacon Hill, Rupert said, "There's a little blood and pain...but no risk...
Then there was the Divinity School student who mutilated himself on the steps of the State House earlier this fall. Erwin L. Rupert II pierced his chest with wooden skewers in a ritual act to show support for four Vietnam veterans fasting in Washington...
...none of the newcomers have come close to upending Carson, still the after-hours ratings king. The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers, the flagship of Rupert Murdoch's new Fox Broadcasting Co., has done respectably in the ratings, but is well behind Carson, averaging a 4.9 rating in twelve prime urban markets, compared with Carson's 7.5. Brenner's numbers have been more disappointing, hovering around 2.4. Cavett and Breslin (whose shows are designed to air at midnight EST, but have been pushed later by several major , ABC affiliates to make room for Brenner's show) are lagging farther behind...
...Party leader. Small signs of cooperation began to emerge on areas of mutual concern like waste disposal and pollution. Although the almost daily contacts are still conducted on an unofficial basis, the numbing silence of the early 1960s has ended. "The present climate is good," says West Berlin Senator Rupert Scholz. "One Berlin is Communist, the other is not. But when we speak together, it is Berliner to Berliner...
...American comes at a time when Hearst (estimated 1985 revenues: $1.5 billion) seems to be losing patience with papers that produce persistent losses. In 1982, Hearst, which still has 14 newspapers, including the San Francisco Examiner and the Seattle Post- Intelligencer, sold the struggling Boston Herald American to Publisher Rupert Murdoch, who has since revitalized the paper with a feisty new style...