Word: shootouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...illustrious American dailies gone to that great newsstand in the sky, few have been so deeply mourned as New York's old Herald Tribune. Founded as the Tribune in 1841 by Horace Greeley, married in 1924 to the popular Herald, and killed in a 1966 shootout in the city's competitive marketplace, the Trib was for decades palpitating proof that a paper could be both serious...
...there will be no new fall comedy show on the networks from Norman Lear. Still, with TV violence out of fashion, the sitcom mills have been the busiest of all, with eight new shows. If Soap, a Lear-ish entry from ABC, is any indication, sex may replace the Shootout as a video pastime. The half-hour weekly serial is a family farce complete with philandering husband, a mother and daughter who pursue the same tennis pro, a transvestite son, and many, many others...
...kind of man I used to put on my dart board." Colson, 45, a former White House aide who served seven months in jail for his part in Watergate, and Cleaver, 41, who still faces a murder rap for his part in a 1968 Black Panther Shootout, met a year ago at a religious gathering in Washington, where they discussed their recent conversions to Christianity. The pair appeared together again last week in Anaheim, Calif., at a "charismatic clinic" at Melodyland Christian Center, founded by Pastor Ralph Wilkerson. The topic of their joint lecture: "Solutions to crime in America today...
...Egypt's army outnumbers Libya's by about 11 to 1 and is much better trained. But Cairo must worry about 200,000 Egyptians who live and work in Libya to bolster that country's infant economy. They would become hostages of Gaddafi in any serious Shootout...
This year's Open also had dramatic overtones more appropriate to the shootout at the O.K. Corral. Not only was the tournament played for only the second time in history at the Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma but the FBI bureau office in Oklahoma City received a death threat on Green's life...