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...Twiggy. If there is anything genuinely new in the new batch of sitchcoms, ABC can claim some dubious credit. Having proved with last year's hit, The Flying Nun, that audiences will sit still for anything that is sufficiently inane, the network now exploits its advantage with television's first series about a transvestite, The Ugliest Girl in Town. The story deals with a young Hollywood talent agent (Peter Kastner) who is mad for an English starlet. He works his way to London as a bewigged model and becomes the hottest mannequin since Twiggy. Kastner admits that...
...Detector Test. Psychologists agree that every batch of fresh police recruits includes a small percentage who are attracted by the idea of force and like the feeling, as a retired officer in New Orleans put it, "that you carry half the power of God on your hip." Chicago's is one of a growing number of departments-about 10% of all the police agencies in the country-that employ sophisticated testing techniques to identify character disorders early...
...sermon apparently sank in. The Packers won, but it took a superlative performance by Quarterback Bart Starr, who completed 17 out of 23 passes for 288 yds. and three touchdowns, before Green Bay could retire with a 34-17 victory over the strongest, stubbornest batch of All-Stars in years...
Twelve years later, Thomas Cook took his first batch of 130 English tourists to the then remote Swiss Alps. In 1872, a year before Jules Verne's book appeared, Cook arranged for a trip around the world that lasted 222 days. Cook's tours soon became a household word on several continents and continued to expand under Thomas Cook's son John, who took over...
...saddest part was that it seemed that most of the kids hadn't really wanted the evening to end this way; that next night the leaders were going to have to find some new followers because a lot of this batch of troops had had enough. There was so little real emotion and revolutionary fervor behind...