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Journalism has long demanded a wide array of skills: interviewing, spelling, bluffing, sleuthing, reading documents upside down on someone else's desk. The Detroit News has added something new to the list: selling papers. For every 13-week subscription a staffer can peddle, the News announced last week, he or she will earn two points toward a catalogue full of gifts, from a Rubbermaid bird feeder (six points) to a digital watch (100 points...
...Entebbe. Over at Paramount, Paddy Chayefsky has been signed to write the script for 90 Minutes at Entebbe, to be directed by Sidney Lumet. Independent Producer Elliott Kastner, meanwhile, is making Assault on Entebbe by revising a script he already had about an Arab-Israeli confrontation. Says a Kastner staffer: "We're ahead and can have the first picture out." But not if 20th Century-Fox rushes into production with its made-for-television film, Mission to Uganda...
...Jimmy Carter's Pathetic Lies," to a Mrs. Dempsey in Alabama, saying "I think you will find that... George Wallace and I are in agreement on most issues." In his response to the Brill piece, Jody Powell, Carter's press secretary, wrote that the letter "was written by a staffer, never seen by Governor Carter, and did not accurately express his views...
...Stanford notes that a reporter from The Miami Herald later found that the unnamed staffer who authored the letter was none other than Powell himself...
...Rosalynn Carter, Jordan called his staff together for a meeting. The group around the table looked awfully young, but they were tossing around big names: Mayor Abe Beame was aboard, one said, and that would help with the Jewish voters, and Chicago's Dick Daley was issuing compliments. Staffer Rick Hutchinson, who at 24 looks like one of the painters of Tom Sawyer's fence, spoke of Tennessee Governor Ray Blanton being the key to that state's uncommitted bloc and the chances he would deliver its nine delegates. There was talk about Alaska's Mike...