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Making spectacular use of her overhead smash and strong net game, Martha Roberts captured the third slot, bettering Laura Weissman, 6-4, 7-6, in what turned out to be the decisive match for the Crimson...
...hotel in Los Angeles. A group of newspaper television critics have assembled to talk to the stars and producer of CBS's The Dukes of Hazzard, a misbegotten rip-off of Smokey and the Bandit. The questions are relaxed, the answers as washed as California light. Finally, Ginny Weissman, editor of the Chicago Tribune's weekly television guide, has had enough. "I thought your show was in very bad taste," she says. "I kept wondering, why is it necessary to spit on the windshield? Why so much tobacco juice? Why such high sexual content? The camera seemed...
...Weissman is typical of a new breed of sharp-tongued television writers who showed last week that the docile, fluffy and often self-serving TV coverage of the past is fast disappearing. Their forum was a notorious newspaper junket, the semiannual network extravaganza to unveil new shows. Fifteen years ago, when such "press tours" were inaugurated, only two of the 40 television writers came at their papers' expense. This time upwards of 60% of the more than 80 critics were listed on network master sheets as POWS, an ironic acronym for paying their own way. (For some East Coast...
...Laura Weissman's defeat of number two Crimson singles player, sophomore Martha Roberts, 6-0, 3-6, 6-2, made possible what Jumbo coach Richard Shapiro called "probably the biggest win ever for womens' tennis at Tufts...
After a disastrous first set, Roberts turned to her characteristically aggressive style to take the second set, 6-3. She fell behind 4-1, early in the third, though; and several spectacular shots from freshman Jumbo Weissman, foiled her late-set charge...