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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That gentlemanly routine changed not a single vote among the four Senators-a far cry from the arm-twisting, lapel-tugging, browbeating style of Lyndon Johnson. Noting that there were half a dozen Senators on the borderline, Consumer Lobbyist James Plug said, "Lyndon would have got at least one vote out of that bunch." Added a friend: "Hell, Lyndon would have got seven votes...
...world (violent crime actually decreased by one-third in Japan over the past 15 years). But unlike mobsters of the West, Japan's yakuza (good-for-nothings) are part of a chivalric tradition that dates back to the 17th century, when unemployed samurai turned to Robin Hood-style banditry. Even today the yakuza like to think of themselves as romantic outlaws, bound together by a blood oath of loyalty, who never harm the innocent...
...element. At least the public generally tolerated known mobsters within their communities. But no longer. Public opinion has been aroused as never before against the hoods. Premier Takeo Fukuda has called for a crackdown, and across Japan police are unleashing "Operation Bulldozer"-a kind of psy-war harassment, Japanese-style-against the nation's 2,500 yakuza bands and their 110,000 members...
Geneva's first kidnaping in 25 years terrified the city's moneyed expatriates. Some of them are Italians who have taken refuge in Switzerland to avoid the pandemic of kidnappings that has plagued Italy. Fearful of an outbreak of Italian-style kidnappings in Switzerland, many wealthy residents of Geneva stayed home and hired bodyguards...
...musical vertigo, the initial program arcs from the Beach Boys to Beethoven, Indian sitar music to music of the Renaissance, the Vienna Boys Choir to the Olympia Brass Band of New Orleans. In subsequent episodes, the series settles down to explore the major elements of music: rhythm, melody, harmony, style. Sidlin provides comic relief as, at a flick of his baton, he changes from conductor to the Melody Doctor or to the loudmouthed host of What's That Rhythm?, a talk-show parody. Each program ends on an upbeat, with excerpts from such masterpieces as Sibelius' Finlandia...