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...takeoff. But the late-late shows have brought into the public domain the venerable cliches about naive little Ruby who comes to the Broadway "jungle" determined to "tap her way to stardom." All the familiar old friends are on hand-the bitchy established star who tries to steal Ruby's sweetheart, the warm-hearted floozy who befriends her, the gruff, tough director who puts her on at the last minute with those classic words: "It's a chance in a million, but it just might work." Everything else is there too-the whiplash body English and frenetic...
...SEUSS'S "HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS" (CBS, 7-7:30 p.m.). Boris Karloff narrates the children's story about the parsimonious, crotchety Grinch who tried to steal Christmas. Repeat...
...enemy is within as well as without. V. W. Green, security chief for Foley's department store in Houston, notes that many shoplifters take temporary pre-Christmas jobs in stores for the express purpose of supplying their personal needs free. "The employee has a lot more chances to steal," Green says. "He's here 40 hours a week; he's probably not watched as closely as the prospective shoplifter in the aisles, and it's easier for him to get away with...
...retailers have any hope for a decline in shoplifting. One Los Angeles department-store executive says, "We'll go on having more and bigger stores-and more opportunities for the person who wants to steal. We just can't have enough security men and clerks. You reach the point where the cost of employing them is prohibitive." Owners shudder at the thought of what the problem may be like when youngsters, who are breaking in today with imaginative petty thievery, grow up and develop an even greater appetite for goods...
...dropout, sent yippie stock tumbling. As Abbie notes: "Come on, Bobby said, join the mystery battle against the television machine. Participation mystique. Theater-in-the-streets. He played it to the hilt. And what was worse, Bobby had the money and power to build the stage. We had to steal ours. It was no contest." Worse still, many yippies really liked Bobby. A planned YIP "festival of love" in Chicago, intended as the young party's high point, suddenly seemed impossible. If Bob Kennedy were nominated at the Democratic Convention, which the lovefest was meant to attack, many yippies...