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...week that Roots II aired, ABC had the top eleven shows in the country, with Mork & Mindy scoring higher even than the Haley saga. On an ordinary week during a nonsweeps month, it has six of the top ten shows: besides Mork & Mindy, there are Laverne & Shirley, Three's Company, Eight Is Enough, Charlie's Angels, Happy Days and Taxi. CBS usually struggles through with three in the top ten: All in the Family, M*A*S*H and 60 Minutes. NBC has only one, Little House on the Prairie...
...Today, under Bluhdorn's direction, G&W ranks 59th on the FORTUNE 500 list, with 1978 sales of $4.3 billion, earnings of $181 million, and more than 100,000 employees. Through its subsidiaries, the New York-based conglomerate produces movies (Saturday Night Fever, Grease) and TV series (Laverne & Shirley, Mark & Mindy), publishes books (bestsellers by Graham Greene and Irving Wallace), owns Madison Square Garden and several athletic teams (including New York's basketball Knicks and Washington, D.C.'s soccer Diplomats). G&W also sells insurance, makes consumer and commercial loans, processes sugar, and manufactures clothing, electronic equipment...
...Chartered Boeing 707s flew in to Isfahan airport. One convoy of 50 cars headed for the Turkish border, another for Iraq. But the majority of evacuees converged on Tehran's airport, despite railroad and domestic airline strikes. Some went to the airport at night to avoid being seen. Shirley and Bill Johnson, a Texas couple who had hired a taxi for the 260-mile journey from Isfahan to Tehran, were asked by their driver, who did not want to be seen transporting foreigners, to put on black chadors, the ankle-length veil worn by Iranian women. By week...
Back in 1976, when Jerry Ford was still President and Shirley Babashoff was still queen of American women's swimming, the muscular mermaids from the German Democratic Republic capped their dramatic rise to aquatic supremacy by taking 11 of 13 gold medals at the Montreal Olympics. This past summer, a band of upstart teenagers from the U.S., weaned on heavy weight-training programs and enticed by the prospect of increasingly available college scholarships, startled more than a few people at the World Championships in West Berlin by swiping nine gold medals while their supposedly awesome rivals managed only...
...Mechanical Contractors Association of America, gathered in Beverly Hills last winter, had Hollywood stunt men stage cowboy gunfights, a man walking around on stilts and women circulating the room dressed as Marilyn Monroe and Shirley Temple...