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...heart return hauntingly for a moment. The dramatization that occurs in the mind is intimate and utterly private. One has only to hear a snatch of Simon and Garfunkel's Mrs. Robinson ("Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?/ A nation turns its lonely eyes to you,/ Woo woo woo") to be again in a rental car chasing Robert Kennedy's whistle-stop primary campaign across northern Indiana in May of 1968. And other memories cascade down on that...
...special election on whether to impose a local business tax. The revenues, which could generate up o $1.5 million a year, would go into a fund to set up services to attract tourists. Examples: a computerized central reservation system for the area's lodges and an association to woo ski clubs and conventions. Even if the new tax is approved, Aspen faces an uphill battle. For one thing, the baby boomers who led the rush to the slopes are older now. "The skiing hotshots of the '60s are married now with three children," says Chamber of Commerce President...
Meeting students and parents, the A.C.M. recruiters set up individual booths to woo prospects. For five hours each afternoon, students and parents went from table to table. The recruiters even managed to turn the Midwest winter into a plus with slides that featured students ice skating and building snow sculptures on picturesque campuses. At Carleton College's display in Albuquerque, one girl stared with delight at a photo of the campus. "It's not like New Mexico at all," she said. "It's lovely." Added her mother: "Oh, go there, dear...
...Grant, WKRP in Cincinnati, Hill Street Blues). Tinker had made his reputation at MTM as THE the velvet-gloved champion of creative personnel, but at NBC he was unable to stanch defections by Newsman David Brinkley (to ABC) and Sports Chief Don Ohlmeyer (to independent production). He did woo many of his old MTM employees to develop relatively sophisticated new series, like the sitcom Cheers and the hospital drama St. Elsewhere. With these shows NBC has asserted its image as the "quality network," though the one new NBC show to perform reasonably well against tough competition - Knight Rider...
...courtship is prickly. At Annie's insistence, John must woo Helen for her consent before he can win Annie for his bride. At first, Helen fears that she will be forced to go back to her parents' home in Alabama and vegetate like "a cow." But between John's charms and Annie's assurances, Helen is won over. She gives her blessing and brings down the first-act curtain with the imperious "You must be married in this house...