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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name implies, the show is a junior version of the network's hard-punching weekly magazine-format program, 60 Minutes. It stars a couple of full-fledged CBS News correspondents, Betsy Aaron, 39, and Christopher Glenn, 40, who comb the country in search of stories that might interest teenagers and preteens-just as Dan Rather, Morley Safer and Mike Wallace do for adults. With slightly less success-at least from the looks of last Saturday's first 30 Minutes, which included rather pedestrian film reports on acne treatment and the plight of a justifiably obscure rock band trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Kid Vid News | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...describes the people he has known. He gives a vivid account of how it was to see the dome of the Taj Mahal from several feet away, but is woefully reticent, for in stance, when he encounters another monument, Actor John Wayne. Chapters given to his divorce and remarriage show little more than the rough shape of a life. Only when Gann describes the drowning of his oldest son, who was chief mate on an unseaworthy tanker, does uncalculated emotion break through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Full Flaps | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...which goes to show that in politics, appearances matter more than reality. The natural gas bill is not a panacea, or even a part of one, for American energy ills. All the bill will do is raise gas prices incrementally over a seven-year period, and then lift price controls entirely in 1985. Controlled interstate gas currently sells for $1.50 per thousand cubic feet (MCF), while unregulated interstate runs about $1.95 per MCF; in 1985, the price for all gas will...

Author: By Brain L. Zimbler, | Title: Blackout on the Hill | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...next series, the Crimson quickly relinquished the ball when Brown's pass glanced off Moore's hands and into the arms of Columbia's Rich Witherspoon, with 3:50 to 90. Columbia was forced to punt and the Crimson offense proceeded to show its competitive fiber...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Columbia Surprises Gridders in First Game, 21-19 | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

JERUSALEM--The Israeli Cabinet yesterday gave Prime Minister Menachem Begin a strong show of support for the agreements he brought back from Camp David, voting overwhelmingly to evacuate Jewish settlements on the Sinai Peninsula in exchange for a peace treaty with Egypt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Israeli Cabinet Votes Sinai Pullback; Knesset Approval of Measure Expected | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

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