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...naam (yes) or la (no) on the question "Do you agree that Anwar Sadat should be President?" They gave the 52-year-old former Vice President no more than a 90.04% naam vote, and 711,252 Egyptians voted la. Two days after the election and 19 days after his predecessor's death, Sadat was duly inaugurated...
Warren Burger doubtless shared his predecessor's pleasure in the welcoming ceremony. But last term the ritual grew so popular that it involved 3,965 lawyers and typically consumed half an hour of every four-hour Supreme Court session. Last week the court decided to curb the century-old custom. Though lawyers may still appear personally, they will now be encouraged to apply by mail and receive their admission certificates from the postman, not the Chief Justice. The change will satisfy efficiency experts, but somehow it gives the whole enterprise the feel of a mail-order diploma mill...
...running old movies. Some 30 outlets declined to carry the Cavett show at all; many stations that did (including those in Boston, Miami and Pittsburgh) delayed it until 1 a.m. Naturally, the ABC late-night show-which had been a profit maker with Cavett's predecessor Joey Bishop-sank into...
...worse than the team that dumped Harvard at Providence last year. And Penn pushed Cornell all over the field at Ithaca until Ed Marinaro intervened in time to push the Big Red to a slender triumph. Ironically, although the 1970 Harvard team is a little better than its predecessor, it may be hard pressed to do any better...
...their wives, share an apartment and unwittingly caricature their own fallibility as spouses. ABC was shrewd enough to cast Jack Klugman, the only possible substitute for Walter Matthau, as the slovenly sportswriter. This time around, his fastidious roommate is played by Tony Randall who, if not up to Broadway Predecessor Art Carney, is apter than Hollywood's Jack Lemmon. Pray for Simon's babies...