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...game ended almost before it began. Not even allowing time to get uniforms muddy, Chuck Columbo quarterbacked the Crimson to three early touchdowns...
...final comeback belonged to the Crimson. With quarterback Chuck Columbo taking charge of the offense, Harvard drove downfield to the Holy Cross one-yard line, only to be denied on three consecutive running plays. Villanueva nevertheless put the Crimson ahead with a 12-yd. field goal, and Ernst iced the game minutes later...
Chiquita Banana, Pepsi and Columbo Yogurt, helped sponsor the race and gave out 11,000 bananas, 15,000 cups of Pepsi, and 11,000 cups of yogurt at the finish line...
Falk plays a CIA agent who is apparently off his nut. He wanders unconcerned into streams of gunfire, shouts about his supposedly secret work in the middle of a crowded luncheonette, and prattles about huge insects he fought in the South American jungle. He's not that different from Columbo-the same bravado, but fewer blue-collar airs and more of a glint of lunacy in his eyes...
...guides to such serious TV productions as Eleanor and Franklin, Masterpiece Theater and Between the Wars, set out two years ago to transmute even the most mindless network shows into learning aids. The first piece of alchemy was making cops-and-robbers shows the cornerstone of a curriculum package. Columbo episodes serve as lessons on literary elements: dramatic character, plot development, conflict and resolution. Students taking law and criminal-justice courses use a "constitutional-awareness chart" to determine whether Baretta has illegally roughed up a suspect. Armed with their study guides, students quickly become sensitive to the way television...