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...Mason, Ava Gardner), spectacle and heavy pretelecast promotion, it attracted only 19.2% of the nation's TV viewers. That is above average but no larger than the audience for a typical episode of Magnum, P.I. The most popular three-parter of the season, ABC's Hollywood Wives, drew an unspectacular 22.8 rating, much lower than the blockbuster numbers predicted for the glitzy tale of Tinseltown...
...decidedly unglamorous figure. "I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist," he would say with typical self-effacement. "I'm just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play." His businesslike podium manner and his reliable but unspectacular interpretations of the standard repertory caused many to underestimate him. But in 44 years, the longest music directorship in American history, Eugene Ormandy led the Philadelphia Orchestra to a height of tonal splendor that was the joy of his adopted city and the despair of orchestras everywhere else...
...Angeles-have been flops. While a 62,300 house was counted the first week of this season in Birmingham, the Stallions might not wish to try Alabama and Auburn head on. Anyway, who would televise the games? Awaiting baseball and good weather, the U.S.F.L. has been achieving unspectacular rating shares, while ticket sales are down...
...always been, is the control of conflict. Imbedded in Eban's argument is the assumptions that nations more often than not will have competing interests and it is the goal of statesmen to keep these rivalries at manageable levels. Progress he warns, will most often be unspectacular and painfully slow and actions may very well offend the public conception's of morality, especially in democracies. What The New Diplomacy evolves into, then is an eloquent defense of the traditional realist approach to international relations...
...Janet Judge, team co-captain with midfielder Inga Larson, lasted 20 minutes of the season. She sustained a year-ending injury against Bowdoin in the Crimson's opening contest, so the responsibility to guard the goal fell to freshman Lisa Rowning of Lake Oswego, Oregon Rowning was consistent, if unspectacular, and showed poise under pressure. She, however, was destined to join Judge on the sidelines. Against Brown last weekend she hurt her knee and was scratched from the Yale contest, Enter Vialet...