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In North Georgia's Cherokee County (pop. 25,700), where many of Rusk's relatives still live, the reaction was tempered but unmistakably negative. "As far as I'm concerned," said Cousin Harold Rusk, 51, a feed and poultry dealer, "I'd rather people marry somebody...
ACCIDENTAL FAMILY (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A new situation-comedy show, in which a Las Vegas-based comedian, Jerry Webster (Jerry Van Dyke), suddenly learns that he has custody-and all that entails-of his eight-year-old son, Sandy (Teddy Quinn). In the opener, Jerry's delight...
In fact, the American appetite for statistics seems insatiable, and the statisticians obligingly crank out an unending supply, ranging from the annual per-capita consumption of paper (540 Ibs.) to the number of dishes (nine) that the typical family breaks in the course of a year. Sports fans are longtime...
One of the better-known courses at Harvard is Social Relations 120, a self-analytical discussion group which has been called "seeking academic credit for sadism." The course's intensity is tempered by its meeting only three hours a week; the imagination quails at the idea of a similarly piercing...
Close to Aristocracy. Today, the scions of the great families administer their institutions and their inheritances, and support their favorite charities, as usual calling little attention to themselves. Time has tempered the extravagances of another era. Author Birmingham, who has previously confined his work mostly to fiction, treats his subjects...