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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...give to organized charities"? He can speak only for himself. I can list dozens of men and women of Italian heritage who not only contribute to the Red Cross and other charitable, cultural and educational institutions, but also give generously of their time and talents to every sort of worthwhile endeavor...
...close ties to Pakistan, even even though though it it is miffed with the Zia regime for last year's overthrow of Bhutto, whom Peking admired, and by Pakistan's tentative moves toward an accommodation with Moscow. So, in the geopolitics of the '70s, China ranks as a sort of honorary member of CENTO...
Nonetheless, The Paper Chase is unlikely to tax the minds of viewers. Based on a negligible 1973 movie (which won Houseman an Oscar as best supporting actor), the series is a high-minded exercise in old-school TV sentimentality-a sort of Teacher Knows Best. Houseman plays a legendary professor whose stony exterior belies a heart as big as a lecture hall. He is surrounded by a bevy of students (one farm boy, one city slicker, one feisty woman) who try to curry his favor and share his wisdom. Since the first episode recounts virtually the entire plot...
Relief of a sort may also be on the way from Washington. After months of debate, Senators and Representatives are now in the final stages of approving a tuition tax credit scheme. If it passes-and then survives threats of a presidential veto -parents could write off as much as $250 a year for each member of the family enrolled in college. By 1980, that credit could be as high as $500. And so it goes...
...This sort of folderol should provoke more belly laughs than backlash. In the real world, the runner does not attract nearly as much popular aggression as, say, the elderly, subway riders, politicians, cops, solitary pedestrian women or even journalists. The reasons are not hard to find. Moving targets offer little appeal to vandals. People who appear to be carrying nothing more negotiable than vigorous health are hardly patsies for muggers. No matter what their charm in repose, few runners going at full grunt offer a vision apt to incite any but the most dedicated molester. Finally, running...