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...Atlanta, Associate Editor James Atwater on Saturday wrote our account of how America's No. 1 prisoner escaped, and Senior Writer Ed Magnuson described the conspiracy theory that surrounds the assassination of Ray's victim, Martin Luther King Jr. Our Nation staff pieced together the Ray saga, as our World and International staffs began work on another late-breaking story, the Dutch marine attack on the South Moluccan kidnapers; their story on the raid includes an eye-witness account by TIME'S Peter Kronenberg...
...month the blond, bearded graduate created a still-life puppet show, with twelve porcelain-headed puppets in full Victorian dress, in a gallery of the main building at Pratt. Perkins changed the puppets' positions each day and used cards to explain what was happening in his mini-Forsyte Saga. Perkins would like to tour the country in a gypsy wagon with his own Punch and Judy show. But at the moment he is looking for a job creating commercial displays. Says he: "I believe if you try hard enough you can do and be anything...
Superstripper. Then there is the saga of Frank Burford, who as recently as 1973 was making $19,000 a year. In 1976 his income was more than $4 million. He became a superstripper-of coal. A former Emory University law professor, Burford returned home to West Virginia in 1967 to liquidate his ailing father's highway-construction business. Instead, he and a cousin revved up the company, branched into trucking and started hauling coal. The partners took over a money-losing coal company and started acquiring leases on vast carboniferous acreage. When coal prices soared in the wake...
...hold much longer than the center of the household. After reruns of the final season, rights to all the episodes will revert to London Weekend Television, which has already sold the show for broadcast in nearly 50 other countries. Hopes for a marathon reshowing here of the whole saga sometime soon seem doomed by lack of funds. Upstairs, Downstairs will assuredly be seen in this country again, after separate sales to local stations...
...trend among once decorous publishers to ape the methods of Broadway and Hollywood. A handful of people are gambling with a lot of money up front that they know what the public will buy-that instead of watching Kojak reruns all summer, people will bury themselves in a long saga of life on an Australian sheep station...