Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brought against The Manhunter (CBS, Wednesday, 10 p.m. E.S.T.). Ken Howard plays a rural private eye of the 1930s as if he were afraid that sudden mobilization of his facial muscles would crack his handsome lines. Luckily the scripts require him to do little more than slip behind the wheel of what bad old novels described as a "high-powered" car and set off on cross-country chases after the current episode's miscreants. For variety, there are many closeups of the car's head lamps and fenders, which are about as emotionally expressive as the leading...
League owners met in Los Angeles last week, and in an effort to stabilize the W.F.L., they announced that a new team would be formed in New York in time for the 1976 season and the reopening of Yankee Stadium. They also held a special draft for Wheel players-16 members of the 37-man squad were picked up-and promised to honor all other contracts signed by now defunct teams. "We feel while we have had our problems, we have not ignored them," says League Founder and Commissioner Gary Davidson. "I feel very positively we have turned the corner...
Then the Dallas Cowboys outbid Detroit for Jones, and Merritt could not come to terms with the team's owners, an unwieldy ensemble of 32 citizens, including Motown Singing Star Marvin Gaye. Instead of Merritt, the Wheels hired Dan Boisture, coach at Eastern Michigan University. The Wheels also brought in a defensive coordinator, David Brazil, who, one Wheel player reported, had coached his high school team to a 0-7 record. Worse still, the team could not use Tiger Stadium because the Lions held exclusive football rights there; the Wheels had to play in Ypsilanti, 35 miles from downtown...
Today Collins, who was bypassed in the draft of Wheel players, spends his days doing chores around his future in-laws' house in Ann Arbor. Soon he will take a job with Vic Tanny. And Ted Wheeler? As he heads to Chicago, he is just glad that his football activities will no longer be confined to watching the B.C. Lions on TV. They are fighting for first place in the Western Conference of the Canadian league...
This is a pin wheel of a comedy, shooting off sparks of wit, menace and surprise at a fast clip. Two pairs of ill-assorted roommates are living in a high-rise apartment on a Northern California campus. There is Ward, a jock who scores as often off as on the field, sharing digs with Leeds, a malicious intellectual who can only win with wit. Right next door lives Ron, a microbiologist of genius, and his faithless wife Honor. When Ward boasts that he can seduce Honor, Leeds bets him that if he does so, Ron will kill Ward within...