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Some of the shows, which are, all in all, the networks' biggest profit makers, have been slipping in the ratings recently-especially the long-running serials on CBS-and the producers have tried to add spice to the old recipe. Sex is more explicit, and husbands and wives can now be shown in bed together-with naked shoulders, no less. An observer of CBS charges that the number of rapes on the network's soaps betrays an effort "to increase the melodrama, which means using either the penis or the switchblade." Even the good people are now seen...
...temper, as in New Hampshire recently when a high school student popped him a question that seemed to come straight out of the McGovern camp. But Muskie knows how to mix it up with the folks without losing his dignity. His fondness for puns, funny or not, adds some spice to his speeches. He is nothing if not philosophical. "Sometimes I see seven sides to a question because there are seven sides," he says...
This year, the Big Red does not even have an individual star to spice up the team routs. Cornell topped Rochester, 6-3, but has been shut out by Penn. Yale, Princeton and Army, Army was a 9-0 victim of Harvard back in December...
...most light hearted. Time: "an average day in the life of Charlie Brown." Place: the cheerful red, yellow and blue of designer Paul Jackel's kindergarten building-block set. From Charlie Brown's first early morning battle with his lack of self confidence to the sugar and spice, star light, star bright finale ("Happiness Is"), Jackel's geometric shapes serve a versatile purpose, while on the backdrop a Schulzian birdie and a curly cloud smile benevolently down...
...colt. They named him Man O' War, and Fasig-Tipton -the company that conducts the auction for 5% of the gross-has been packing them in ever since. The rising price scales remain unaffected by recession, famine, or even an epidemic of Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis. This year special spice was added to the proceedings by the memory of the 1969 Keeneland sale of Cañonero II, who went for the bargain price of $1,200 and won the 1971 Kentucky Derby and Preakness. "There's only one thing we're selling," says Auctioneer Ralph Retler...