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That question most expensively troubles television. A mere 30% of the nation's sets were tuned to the Republicans on the first night of the convention, though this was a slight gain over the Democrats' 26%. Is gavel to gavel (even with all the interspersed commercials) worth it for NBC and its advertised "team of 550"? As competitive sports go, the Olympics far outdrew the conventions. Of course, networks have other motives. Conventions are their most conspicuous "public service"; they are also television's own Olympics, with their news departments' prestige at stake. Besides, there...
...carefully programmed knockabout farce, The Ritz has been adapted with only slight modification from Terrence McNally's Broadway hit. The insanity centers around a small-time Italian businessman named Gaetano Proclo (Jack Weston). On the run from a mobster brother-in-law, Gaetano lies low in what he considers a suitably obscure hideout. The place even has a reassuringly classy name-the Ritz. Gaetano is from Cleveland, so he can be forgiven his naiveté about the Manhattan demimonde. He suspects all is not well, however, when the Ritz turns out to be an elaborate bathhouse patronized exclusively...
Despite their differences, Philippe and Gilbert were identical twins. Said Police Captain Pierre Patruel: "They resembled each other so much that you would have to see them standing next to each other to pick out the slight differences between them." Some of the neighbors referred to them as Cain and Abel...
Sutton robbed banks and engineered his elaborate escapes because that is where the applause was. He was born in Brooklyn's Irishtown at the turn of the century, and there was a point in his teens when a slight tilt of circumstance might have sent him-street-wise and nervy-into one of the gaudier branches of lawyering. He went into armed robbery instead. He would appear at a bank door, wearing the uniform of a messenger or a cop, after the help had begun to arrive but before the doors opened to customers. A colleague or two would...
There is some evidence that the earth had cooled down-at least temporarily-in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1972, according to German Climatologist Horst Dronia, the atmosphere in the Northern Hemisphere was one full degree centigrade colder than in 1949. But there have been indications of a slight warming since then. If the cooling-theory school is correct, however, the prospects for man are chilling. A global average temperature drop of only 1° could shorten the growing seasons in the temperate zones by a critical week or more and reduce food supplies. Increased heating requirements would...