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...WOR (9) New Bedford...
Jack boots sound in the streets, and fear is so palpable it can be tasted in the evening soup, but Anne spends a day wor rying about the pathological Dutch dislike of nudity. In The Sink of Iniquity she pro tests, "Modesty and prudishness can go too far. Do you put clothes on flowers when you pick them? I don't think we're so very different from nature. Why should we be ashamed of the way nature has dressed...
...idea worked. When Turner's Channel 17 went onto the satellite in December 1976, the concept of the "Superstation" was born. Imitators followed (notable among them: Chicago's WGN-TV and New York City's WOR-TV). Turner is thus commonly cited as the first cable programmer to distribute via satellite. He corrects the record: "The first to go up there was Home Box Office. I just read about it. Give me the credit for going up to New York the next week to talk to the people who had satellites." Today Turner's WTBS...
...guard Sleepy Floyd one time and then worried whether his friend was all right; both come from Gastonia, N.C. Carolina Guard Jimmy Black had some rough words with Floyd during the game but only sweet ones for him later. And Brown, who mistook Wor thy for a teammate and in a horrifying misfire tossed his team's last chance away, stood up bravely to waves of questions...
...only pessimist on Wall Street. Felix Rohatyn, a partner of Lazard Frères, an investment banking house, warns that "the next twelve to 18 months are going to be potentially the most dangerous period that I have seen in 30-plus years in the banking business." Rohatyn is wor ried about possible corporate bankruptcies and the failure of some banks or savings and loan institutions as well as rising unemployment. Last week the Labor Department released figures that supported those glum views. Unemployment in December jumped to a near record 8.9%, up from 8.4% in November...