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...minor and major villains, from third- rate burglars to reprobate White House movers and shakers. But for every two Watergate wrongdoers, the affair also produced a Watergate hero. No one was more celebrated or more fondly regarded than North Carolina's Sam Ervin, Democratic chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities. "We could wind this up pretty soon if everyone would tell what he knows," drawled Ervin, as the hearings got under way twelve years ago, "but if we continue to play hide-and-seek, then it could take a while." It did, and as his committee...
Network programmers hardly need a TV encyclopedia to recognize that another show has joined that select category. NBC's The Cosby Show, starring Bill Cosby as an obstetrician coping with the small trials of family life, was the highest-rated network series to debut last fall, and its following has grown to blockbuster proportions. The sitcom now lands regularly in the No. 1 slot in the weekly ratings; a month ago it even beat the Academy Awards by more than two ratings points. Its success has boosted the ratings of NBC's entire Thursday night lineup and has helped...
...game was like one of those "Choose Your Own Adventurer" books, the kind where you select between several possibilities, turn to the indicated page, and have your specific fate determined...
...sealed envelopes in various colours. Each would be clearly marked on the outside: Traditional Happy Ending; Traditional Unhappy Ending . . . Cliffhanger Ending; Dream Ending; Opaque Ending; Surrealist Ending; and so on. You would be allowed only one, and would have to destroy the envelopes you didn't select. That's what I call offering the reader a choice...
...eight Ivy League schools agreed to the mailing date change after a request last summer by the Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE) to provide admitted students with more time to select the college of their choice...