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...caller of yet another crisis, Mary replies, "I can't talk now, I'm on the phone." Actress Louise Lasser somehow turns that Gracie Allen yuk into a more everyday kind of bewilderment. Even Mary's usual costume can be described several ways. A silly little mini with a Peter Pan collar and puffed sleeves, it could be a saucy nurse's uniform, a chaste skating costume or just a child's dress...
After the Polaroid mini-controversy quieted down, the bursar's card fell out of the limelight, and no one publicly noted or mourned the passing of I.D. card encoding early in 1975. The key to this move was Widener Library's decision to drop a proposed automation of its circulation system...
Finally a warning. ABC has a mini-series of Irwin Shaw's RICH MAN, POOR MAN (Monday, 10 p.m. E.S.T.) that makes Beacon Hill look like the later Henry James. Vulgar in characterization, tacky in execution, yet earnestly convinced that it is offering a panorama of postwar American life, it does not even give viewers the consolation of being unintentionally funny. The only hope is to draw a team from the cast and enter it in Almost Anything Goes. It would be a socko-and merciful-finish for both shows...
Until his recent emergence as a public figure, Sanjay Gandhi was best known to Indians as the designer and builder of a mini-auto called the Maruti, named for the son of the Hindu god of wind. In the past, opposition politicians have charged that Sanjay got preferential treatment in getting a license to manufacture the car, which is now in limited production (cost: $2,800) after eight troubled years of development...
...planes for the New York-to-Tokyo run. Boeing also plans a brand new 180-to 200-seat medium-range 7X7, which should roll off the production lines in the early 1980s-just in time to compete with McDonnell Douglas DC-X-200 and Lockheed's "mini-trijet" derivative...