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...code nor the N.R.A. bill ever made it to a Senate vote. Two other N.R.A. supporters, Republican Robert Dole of Kansas and Democrat Sam Nunn of Georgia, were annoyed by the lobby's relentless but ultimately unsuccessful effort to block the confirmation last fall of former Illinois Congressman Abner Mikva, a strong gun-control advocate, as a federal judge...
...desert in Palmdale, Calif., is a longish way from the old green-painted hangar in Burbank where it all began. But to everyone in military aviation, it is still the "Skunk Works," after the foul-smelling still where one of Al Capp's Li'I Abner characters brewed Kickapoo Joy Juice. A fitting nickname. Over the years an incredible string of secret weaponry-including the new breed of nearly "invisible" (to radar) planes-has emerged from the Skunk Works...
...sing much better than a shower warbler," carped one drama critic. But on creaky knee and in creakier voice, Joe Namath scored big with his audience in Li'l Abner. Making his musical debut at Atlanta's Civic Center, the former New York Jet nimbly slipped through some opening-night tight spots. When upstaged by a squealing pig, he simply outbellowed the boorish ham. Later, when his pitch wandered way offsides in a love duet with Hee-Haw's Misty Rowe as Daisy Mae, off-Broadway Joe just laughed along with the twittering crowd...
Baylor's board of publications voted the day before to remove the editors after an editorial appeared accusing university President Abner McCall of "smugness" and calling his administration "arrogant...
DIED. Chester H. Lauck, 78, co-star with Norris Goff of the Lum and Abner radio series, which dealt with the comic doings of a pair of country storekeepers in Pine Ridge, Ark., and during its long run (1931-55) won a nationwide audience that was second in size only to Amos and Andy; of cancer; in Hot Springs...