Word: programming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mama have come Jean-Claude van Itallie (America Hurrah!), Tom O'Horgan, (director of Futz and Hair), Sam Shepard (the 27-year-old author of Red Cross and Chicago), Leonard Melfi (Jack and Jill) and a host of others. Ellen Stewart announces the evening's program by ringing a homely cowbell. As long as Ellen rings her cowbell, whatever the season brings, the theater is alive...
...guest role as an All-America college halfback desperately trying to suppress symptoms of a mystery ailment lest it jeopardize a $500,000 pro offer. (A nice bit of casting, that, although in real life O.J. got an estimated $350,000 from the Buffalo Bills.) The rest of the program rang changes on the versus pattern: Young Doctor Chad Everett v. Old Doctor James Daly; modern technology v. pheochromocytoma, of all things. Simpson, incidentally, seemed headed for recovery...
...failing is that the commissioners have given their staff little guidance as to what kind of cases to concentrate on. The staff has been reacting to whatever complaints happen to come in the mail, mostly from businessmen against competitors, rather than doing legwork. The FTC has an Office of Program Review that is supposed to set priorities but, the A.B.A. report notes, its director "died almost a year ago and has not been replaced...
...apprentices must start work at half of a journeyman's pay and stay in training for three to five years, a period that many experts consider at least twice as long as necessary. Union officials contend that the system is vital to maintain standards of workmanship. "The apprenticeship program is so rigged that it would take a college-level black to get in," .says Assistant Labor Secretary Arthur Fletcher. "Why should a Negro who can be a college-trained engineer want to be a plumber...
...obviously had in mind was a sophisticated, controversial comedy, but their work suggests that sex is too important to be left to Hollywood. Why B&C&T&A was chosen to open a presumably serious film festival on the gala first night is a mystery understood only by the program committee...