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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ordered the punitive award to be cut. Noting that the $5 million sum amounted to nearly 60% of Mutual's 1974 net income, the court said that the award was bloated by the "passion and prejudice" of the jury. A new trial must now be held to set a fairer award, but the decision left no doubt that courts could continue to exact punitive damages from insurance companies...
...Guards burned Bibles in the streets of Shanghai for several afternoons. When boredom set in, the surviving stock was sent off to a pulping plant. In Xiamen (Amoy), a similar burning took place but with a sinister twist: Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. workers were forced to kneel by the books until their cheeks and hands blistered from the fire. All over China, church buildings were pillaged, closed down or turned into warehouses. Chinese Christians were often tortured or killed if they did not repudiate their beliefs. At the height of the 1966-69 Cultural Revolution, the last eight Western Christian workers...
...their children had rickets. The people of Jarrow staged a hunger march, walked the 280 miles to London to confront a government that refused to see them. Some 30 years later, Price wrote a song for them. It was rilled with pride, a particular kind of chin-out toughness set to an easy melody fit for a pub choir, and it had a memorable chorus: "And if they don't give us a couple o' bob/ Won't even give you a decent job/ Then ... with my blessings, burn them down...
...Eischied (a spin-off of the TV miniseries To Kill a Cop); Claude Akins is a smalltown Southern sheriff in the same network's The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (a spin-off of B.J. and the Bear). ABC's Hart to Hart stars a jet-set husband-wife sleuthing team (Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers). In CBS's Big Shamus, Little Shamus, father and son (Brian Dennehy and Doug McKeon) become the first TV detectives to police Atlantic City's new casinos. For audiences who take crime lightly, ABC has a sitcom called Detective School...
When cops dominate the tube, doctors and lawyers usually follow close behind. Both ABC and CBS have new medical hours: The Lazarus Syndrome (starring Louis Gossett Jr.) and Trapper John, M.D. (a M* A* S* H spin-off starring Pernell Roberts and set 28 years after the Korean War). ABC's sitcom The Associates, from the creators of Taxi, takes place in a Wall Street law firm. Other new sitcoms are built around fatherless families, in imitation of CBS's long-running Norman Lear sitcom One Day at a Time. Shirley Jones, years ago a single...