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...Houston's scrappy little Texas International Airlines had quietly bought more than 9% of National's stock; later it won Civil Aeronautics Board permission to pick up as much as 25%. As one Wall Street analyst put it, Texas International was a "sardine chasing a shark." Last week the swivel chairs in airline board rooms were spinning again as a whale declared its interest in National. Pan American World Airways, the fifth biggest U.S. airline, said it wanted to buy all of National's shares and was ready to spend $300 million...
Though Freddie, if his past record is any guide, is not likely to cut off many heads, he is certain to make major changes before he has twirled three times in his new swivel chair. "One thing he will do is break up those long, indecisive meetings at NBC," says Producer Grant Tinker (The Mary Tyler Moore Show). "NBC is really one long meeting, and he'll stick firecrackers under the chairs at those endless sessions." NBC'S programmers know that whatever they do this month may be rescinded next month. "Does NBC'S fall schedule mean...
...draws Les Frustrés at home, a sixth-floor Montmartre walkup she shares with her photographer husband (they have no children). Bretécher usually cannot face her drawing board and swivel-top piano stool until the day the strip is due. As comely as her characters are homely, she patronizes the same voguish boutiques and is occasionally oppressed by the same fashionable insecurities as those she parodies. Except one. "The seriousness and dogmatism of the feminist movement have become appalling," says Bretécher. The dogma that appalled her most when she began to sour on the movement...
...remarks that the stench of the chimneys keeps him from enjoying his meal. We cut then to a Lysol commercial, in which a woman character named "Snoopy Sniffer" arrives at a housewife's kitchen and informs her that she has house odors. From her ovens? Can the mind swivel so wildly? Some of those watching gave up and turned off their sets...
...advanced age for a dancer, together with the agelessness of the spirit of dance. Another standout is an amusing stunt number called "Fourteen Feet," which might have been titled "Look Ma, No Feet!" Seven dancers implant their feet in nailed-down clogs and proceed to sway, shake and swivel. At one point the lighting trans forms them into electric eels. Electric they...