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...however, Homicide doesn't stand out in bold enough relief from TV's background clutter. The characters are too pat, their conflicts too predictable. The premiere episode revolves around a naive newcomer to the squad (Kyle Secor) who faces, yes, resentment from the old pros, because he came from a wimpy job on the mayor's security detail. By Episode 2 (the following Wednesday), the show already seems to be marking time with goofy character diversions. One detective jabbers obsessively about finding the real killer of President Lincoln; another gets crime-solving help from a ghost; a third, a middle...
...woman's decision to inform others of her condition must be dictated by realism, said Cynthia Secor, the director of a management training program who is currently recovering from inflammatory breast cancer...
That prospect?though it may not actually come true?filled many farmers with indignation. Some of them gathered glumly at local grain elevators, the first stop for much U.S. grain after it leaves farm storage bins. At Secor, Ill., four farmers watched the prices fall on a TV screen. "I don't think the shock has hit them," said Manager John Aeschliman. Just before the embargo he bought corn at up to $2.96 a bu.; his first purchase last week was from a scared farmer at $2.12 a bu. At the Pro-Farmer elevator in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, two farmers...
...Atlantic. The scheduled lines have fought back by offering a bewildering variety of excursion packages, and some have resorted to illegal discounting of blocks of tickets to travel agents. Now the CAB is trying to clear up the mess by simply abolishing the affinity rule. Says CAB Chairman Secor Browne: "Low-cost charter availability is taking on the character of a right, which governments are increasingly being expected to protect and promote...
...more drastic step: a boycott of any airport whose government refuses to surrender an airline skyjacker. Unless the United Nations Security Council moves "effectively" against air piracy, the pilots threatened a one-day international shutdown of air service on June 19. In the U.S., Civil Aeronautics Board Chairman Secor Browne sympathized with the pilots, but opposed a private boycott on the grounds that "the elimination of skyjacking is the responsibility of governments." He proposed formation of a single national anti-skyjacking authority...