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...homes, The Call relieves a lot of anxieties. Many highschoolers have gone to bed or left for parties without doing any school-work, taking the calculated gamble that they will not have to show up in school the next day. Sometimes the smudging call doesn't come through, and frantic students have to dig by spontaneous excuses to get out of tests. But as soon as The Call comes, academic worries are behind and it's time to head for the groves...
...crew member killed in the capture of the Pueblo, there are indications that he too was a victim of the system he served: that he was destroyed in the crew's frantic efforts to destroy, before its capture, the massive espionage equipment the ship was carrying...
Gunsmoke Executive Producer John Mantley, who had finished ten segments before violence was de-emphasized, says that he spent the whole summer in the cutting room. But even with all of Mantley's frantic re-editing, the installment two weeks ago contained three gunshot killings, one death by trampling, two knife attacks, three fights and a threat to snap someone's neck "like a dry twig." Says Mantley: "It is difficult for me to continue making Gunsmoke. My position is that if you want to take violence off television, then you have to take drama off television...
...year or less, as was the case from 1960 through 1965. Over the last twelve months, however, consumer prices have jumped 4.3%, the greatest annual gain since the Korean War year of 1951. During October, the latest month for which statistics have been compiled, consumer prices rose at a frantic 7.2% annual rate. While the nation's output of goods and services climbed 8.7% to a record of $860 billion for the year, almost half of that was accounted for by price increases. Just over half represented "real growth...
Back through the now heavy rain to the News. The scene was frantic--with the deadline an hour away, strange faces constantly popping in telling me to hurry up, and half-heard comments about that goddamned Cliffie. At that moment the whole experience was suddenly surrealistic. There I was at Yale, for no reason except that a group of boys just couldn't stand it anymore, sitting in a strange newsroom, writing some story about some lady masturbating with a cross. It was bizarre and slightly absurd. All at once I was feeling isolated and quite lonely...