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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kojack. (Ch. 7, 9 p.m. 1 hour) and Columbo (Ch. 4, 9 p.m. 2 hours) are competing in the same time-slot this season, another example of public-spirited network programming. Why not screw both networks and watch ABC? It offers a strong movie at 9 p.m. See below...
...particularly bitter irony in the contrast between two recent events involving the two cities. Last month the Federal Government decided that Montgomery was so peaceful that the guards could be safely removed from the home of U.S. District Judge Frank M. Johnson. Armed men have been standing watch nightly since 1956, when two fiery crosses were burned on John son's lawn, apparently in protest against his liberal decisions on civil rights...
Willing to risk anything at his age (71), Comedian Bob Hope went to Manhattan's Central Park to tape a special show marking his 25th year on TV. Waving an arm at the thousands of New Yorkers who came to watch the free entertainment, he cracked: "This is the first audience that I've ever played to on grass-that I knew about." In one sketch, Hope and Jackie Gleason dressed up as two Central Park vice-squad members in bosomy drag. Carol Channing, one of the guest stars, asked Hope what would become of his talent...
...Bruce Lee died of an overdose of marijuana. What really happened was he smoked a great joint, got a great high-and beat himself up." The difference between whites and blacks? "If you go up to a Midwest WASP and ask the time, he'll look at his watch and say 'Quarter of four.' You go in the ghetto and ask a black guy and he'll say, 'Do I look like Big Ben to you, turkey...
...Taxes. Ayn (as in "mine") Rand is openly pleased over her real-life achiever-hero's rise to the White House. She traveled from her midtown Manhattan apartment to Washington, D.C., this month to watch Greenspan's swearing-in, then was introduced to President Ford. "I'm very proud of Alan," she says. "His is a heroic undertaking...