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...vice versa. After years of churning out hits, ABC now finds its prime- time fortunes largely dependent on just one show, the long-running, top- rated saga of the Carrington clan. In addition to Dynasty, ABC has only one other prime-time program in the Nielsen top ten this season, Hotel, a fluffy comedy- drama that has the good fortune to occupy the time slot immediately following Dy- nasty. Disappointing performances from most of its other series dropped ABC to last place in the prime-time ratings this season, its lowest finish in ten years. Problems mounted elsewhere as well...
...when you hear the clan of aquamen exclaim "suits on heads" you'd better be ready for more than a few hand claps...
...RICO law had already been used to indict some Mafia clan leaders in New York (including Carmine Persico, 51, a Colombo family chieftain), Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Rochester. Charges of skimming $2 million in cash from casinos in Las Vegas have also been leveled against high Mafia figures in Chicago, Kansas City and Milwaukee...
...odder telling would be hard to confect. Vincent Castleton, 43, an English banker in New Orleans, has married Marguerite Benoir, also known as Mim or Mimi to the handful of people on earth she regards as equals. These include most of the Benoirs, an impossibly rich and haughty French clan whose members call themselves the Sioux, perhaps as a tribute to their own ferocity. Mim, in her mid-20s, has led a luxurious but troubled life. Her first marriage, to Cousin Georges Benoir, ended in a car crash that killed one of the world's most dashing multimillionaires...
...trying to make a revolution." Hooker said of the left-wing Sandinista government that in 1979 overthrew the right-wing U.S. backed Somoza clan, adding that he fears the Reagan Administration's intervention will prevent the revolution's success...