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Evangelical Advice. Some of the liberal schools are trying to tap the potential in the evangelical renascence by making overtures to conservative students. At Union, for instance, a committee charged with re-examining the school's constituency invited Conservative Scholar Carl F.H. Henry in for some evangelical advice. (His suggestion-hire qualified conservative scholars-was firmly vetoed by the students on the committee...
Real People. Tomlin's satire delights in big, powerful targets like the phone company and the FBI. (Ernestine suggests in one skit that her company and the FBI work together, since they both tap phones.) "There is bite in her comedy," says Producer George Schlatter, who gave Tomlin her big break on NBC's Laugh-In in 1969. "But she never goes for a joke outside the character. She won't burn herself out because people are interested in her characters, who are real people...
...eight Ivies are playing non-league interstate rivals and things look good. Only Brown can be considered to have an excellent shot at losing. With so many games on tap. I'd better cut the intro and get down to the hard core pr-pre-por-porno-pornogr-progn ostication. A swift salute to the Ivies chances and we're on to the nicks...
...five men arrested in the Watergate on June 17-James W. McCord, Bernard L. Barker, Eugenio R. Martinez, Frank A. Sturgis and Virgilio R. Gonzalez-were all charged with conspiring to break into the Democratic offices in order to plant bugs, tap telephones and intercept conversations. Also charged were G. Gordon Liddy, a onetime White House aide and former counsel to the Re-Election Committee's finance division, and E. Howard Hunt, a former White House consultant. The violations carry penalties of up to 34 years in prison and $80,000 in fines...
...involving young men who are angry, desperate or bewildered are the source of its real strength. It is the soldiers far more than the performers who touch us and shake us. It may well have been the intention of the F.T.A. troupe to serve above all as catalysts, to tap and reflect the turmoil to which these soldiers bear eloquent witness. If so, then Fonda, Sutherland and their companions did a memorable job. ∎Jay Cocks