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Wednesday, October 13, 1976
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Campaign: pappy days
Jimmy Carter and Jerry Ford continue to hound each other on such important topics as the freedom of Poland and the wisdom of giving an interview to someone he is going to discuss something equally important: the Nielsen ratings.
Two ABC shows, "Happy Days" and "Laverne and Shirley," are No.1 and No.2 for the second week of the current season.
1 SAW the opening show of "Happy Days" and it disappointed me, but I haven't seen the No. 2 television show in America, "Laverne and Shirley." The preview of two girls driving over a sidewalk in an old convertible failed to attract me to this popular show. Perhaps I am missing something, but for the most part I think I will ignore No. 2.
3. NBC Monny Night Movie, "Dawn Portrait of a Teenaged Runaway"
4. NBC Sunday Night Movie, "Earthquake" (Part II)
5. "Bionic Woman"
6. "Charlie's Angels"
7. "All in the Family"
8. "Rich Man, Poor Man"
9. ABC Sunday Night Movie, "The Way We Were"
11. "M-A-S-H-'
12. "Family"
10. "Baretta"
13. "Alice"
14. "Welcome Back, Kotter"
15. "Good Times"
16. "Barney Miller"
17. "Captain and Tennille"
18. "The Waltons"
20. "Little House on the Prairie"
19. "One Day at a Time"
MOST AMERICANS, if the television people can be believed, spend their leisure time in front of the boob tube. That list, then, is the ranking of what Americans like to watch while enjoying their favorite pastime.
Both presidential candidates seem more interested in debating the use of dirty words than in debating their political differences.
For the most part, I think that people are better off watching "Happy Days" than listening to the speeches of the current campaign.
As long as sex, lust and racial jokes preoccupy the candidates, most people would be better off watching to see whether "Laverne and Shirley" can edge out "Happy Days," than listening to Carter and Ford.
By Carl Young
Contributing Writer
A requiem for an era
By K-CEE COLBURN
Quarter Writer
The man crouched in front of the students. His face, etched with lines, barely began to show. He pursued his beliefs—prison, harassment, and leaving the priesthood. The students assumed the lines were merely decorations, not all, the man had white hair.
Guest Writer
The students, some comfortably clad in their carefully styled denims, others outfitted in their polyester slacks, the students who are concerned over the threat to world peace and the dangers of nuclear power. The students listened politely, but passively
THE MAN wasPhilip Berrigan, the former Catholic priest and outspoken critic of the Vietnam war. He had been used as a speak in Missouri City students. But what he actually did was unconsciously conduct a requiem, a requiem for a
bygone era that had beer, characterized by antiwar activism, opposition to nuclear arms proliferation, and the desire to improve the quality of life in this country.
The epicenter of these movements had been on the college campuses, and Berrigan had been one of the national leaders whom students had idealized. But the students Berrigan found at UMKC last week were far more articulate than the student group he had rallied in the '60s. The UMKC students lacked the zeal and devotion their brothers and sisters had felt so passionately for this man—to these contemporary students he was something of a failure. They have sympathized with what he said, they lacked the visceral empathy other students had felt in the past.
THE UMKC students weren't of the generation who agonized with Berrigan over the draft, who supported him during the
trial of the Cantonsville Nine, and who watched him go to prison, having lost in his attempt to prevent young men the most atum atUMK the threat of being drafted is history.
The man now lives in a black ghetto in Baltimore, Md., with his wife, a former nun, and continues to pursue his ideals. He is now living to reflect the toll his commitments have taken on him.
The man sounds more weary now. For years he has been fighting for what he deeply believes to be right, and now he is facing a new obstacle. In the past he has struggled with hostility and resistance to his ideas; now he must overcome complacency.
The students detect his weariness. They assume he is merely tired from his long illness, and in a sense, they are right.
(K-cee Colburn is a graduate of the School of Journalism.)
Diligently, she rehearsed her act, which included mimicking an Alabama accent just for effect. If she only remembered
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SHE WONDERED from the beginning whether the bouncer would believe she had gained 20 pounds, grown three inches and was wearing blue contacts. But her best to make the story believable, having borrowed an LD, from a cooperative but rather odd-looking friend. Her mother memorize the information on her three pieces of borrowed LD—a driver's license, a social security card or a movie pass. (No KU-ID. Any picture would wind up eating pizza at the hall.)
The faking starts her auaking
"May I see your LD?"
Last weekend, college students were asked this question as they tried to get into local nightclubs that, by law, admit only adults. For those who were actually 21, it was no big deal. For those who weren't 21 but who had played the game before, it was a new challenge for an inexperienced beginner, the question started an evening that went something like this:
"May I see your LD?"
to keep her head down, her stomach in, hands steady and lines straight she might have a chance. A good "Oh come on, you've got to be kidding" could be used as a last resort.
The HE appeared. That gorgeous guy she'd seen in HDFL all semester. Her lucky night had at last arrived, and as she sauntered toward him through the mass of people, she envisioned an evening of meaningful disco dancing that
THE BOUNCER wasn't as
Mary Ann Daugberty Contributing Writer
her say she had to have the I.D. back, either.
tough as some she had heard about. He seemed rather preoccupied with trying to change his flashlight batteries and cooing to the tall blonde beside him. She thought herself fortunate when he briefly scanned, and waved her hand before giving up. She had time. Just to be safe, she drawned "Thanka, ya."
Inside, she remembered the cardinal rule of using a friend's I.D. More enemies are made over lost I.D.'s than anything else. She used the plastic folder out of her wallet, put it in her pocket and buttoned the flap securely. She put her own I.D., such as it was, in her wallet, making use of the claw if the police raided the place it was to be the bouncer, not her, who would be reprenumbrated.
Bubwa's debut: forget it
The debut of Bubua Watches on the XYZ Network's evening news as cochoronomer is the biggest thing to happen, Captain Kangaroo had his 20th anniversary. Harvey Goldbrick, XYZ's board chairman, said that Bubua is his network's answer to the Six Million Man-a-Five Million Dollar Woman.
be made into a movie, is "That's News."
"BUT EVEN as great a journalistic star as Bubwa Watals, with her knowledge, her experience, her brilliant news judgment—it isn't enough. You need depth to win in news, so that Miss Watals is being backed up by two chauffers, a hair Oscar de la Renta, a wizardrose Oscar de la Renta, a French gourmet-type chef, three reporters to read the teletype machines and two writers so Bubwa will always have something to say."
Answear: Yes, Bubba. I do. I swear at a little announcement program for you. I want it to be a little something of substance so they couldn't call you a lawyer.
BUBWA'S opening week performance set a record for exclusive interviews, bombshells and scoops on consecutive nonweek news days. Because the news on Bubwa's shows is copyrighted and intended solely for use and enjoyment, it may not be replaced by the express permission of the Commissioner of Baseball and the mayor of the city where the scoop took
Bubwa's debut exceeded all expectations. It was so good that for the first time in television history a network will be selling its old news programs for afternoon rumors. On or run syndication isn't yet because it's not as popular as rights to Bubwa's shows so that they can be edited for movie house distribution as another sequel to "That's Entertainment." The tentative title for this, the first flick to premiere as a TV program and then
"Just as XYZ has forged into the entertainment lead by bringing the viewing audience the best in crime, we are sparing no expense to give TV "The Voice" a voice in journalism," Mr. Goldbrick said in announcing Bubba's debut.
weally fwesh and exciting that will intewest the people back here?
And then she remembered she didn't have the one that got her in the door. In short, the gig was a bit of an adventure and tried some lame excuse about being part of a sociology experiment. When he wrote her name down, she began looking at dime for her one phone call.
Bubba: America has no better friend in your part of the world than you. Anwah. So what did you save for me, kid?
place. So we can give you only snippets without have to pay royalties. XYZ does allow a synopsis and a few quotes for people who don't want to jail for the ransom, so here is the juicy answer. "No," we conclude, exclusive Anwar沙谈 interview:
Anwar: I'm taking this occasion to
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TO HER surprise, he then dismissed her with warning never to come back until she was really Z1. She had broken hearts and智能 smarta enough to know nice girls don't do things like that?
Anwar: Delighted to meet you,
Hawie. Buba, dear, everybody in Africa from Lesotho to Zimbabwe is delighted that you have got a show of your own. It warns my heart and that of Madame Sudi sat who longs for a new life in also, almost as much as a new shipment of the latest missiles.
Butt: Frankly, Buba, the uprour over this particular shirt has me puzzled. I've shared other groups, I have shared with others, and I have shrured, if you want to call my gentle jocasities alurs. I just happen to think people who are different from me in skin color or religion or national origin share with me. They don't look down on them any more
But at that moment there was no time to think of thwarted love. Three bully policemen entered the place. As non-violent people in couple hundred people began to move toward the back move
Bubwa's interview—another exclusive—with Earl Butz was fascinating, especially the part where he discussed the slur:
Bubwa: Anwah, I'm glad you're my first interwoo on the first night of my big new show. this gray-haired man shows that name was named Hawie. He helps me, Anwah.
BUBWA: Anchaw—or Mr. President as I should anw你 even though you and I are on closer terms than my colleague Howard Cosell and Muhammad All—Mr. Pwisdien, who have any news for us, something
AND SO a scoop was born, but that first debut week was stunning scoop with the Scoops brand. The Chinese used Buhna's program to introduce Mao Tse-tung's successor, Chairman Too Dang Fat, who asked if he would have been successful or final and did he still have a chance?
announce that in five minutes we're going to war with Israel again.
Bubwa: Hawie! !! Did you hear that? Oh, Anwah, how can I ever thank you?
than I look down on the chipmunks and the possums or the coons. We're all God's creatures, you know, but it's not like it. What I said about the colors—
Bubwa: We call them bwacks, Ehwell.
BUTZ: THEY'RE not all black, Bubba. Some of them, are of course. Some are so black they're blue, but some are tan, beige, coffee and high tea. That's not colorado. That's not bigotry, Bubba, and what I said about those people they ought to take as a compliment. It shows they're part of the revolution of rising expectations to want sexual expectations, shoes that fit and indoor plumbing.
Many were moved when she asked the audience to think of her work rather than how much she was getting paid. She was a manicurist, for after all these are private questions between her, and another network press agent who leaks them.
PANIC BEGAN to grip her as the crowd pushed and she realized she had no chance of being among the first to reach the door. How she wished she had opted for a pepperoni with double cheese instead of a banana daiquiri.
Bubwa herself made a lovely speech that first night. She was very gracious to Hawke . . . told him she was sure to go and together if he didn't get in the way.
She knew instinctively who was tapping her shoulder. He was big, very big. And so was she. She could tell you how to help it to revive the Alabama accent? Would she make points if she said she was a police chief's daughter? How fast can she fly on a floor soaked with beer?
But the biggest beat of the week was that terrific interview she got with the weeping Jebwie Fowd, particularly the part where Mr. President said, "Oh I'm going to miss him so he. He was the life of the cabin. As good as fresh water," he replied with a wonderful, dedicated, selfless public servant with a terrific sense of humor and now, dammit, he's never going to tell me his Jew joke."
would develop into a passionate romance.
AS SHE hoped, he was glad to see her. But not for the right reasons. Would she be a pal and give him the test answers to chapter 20 and, oh yes, would she mind terribly if his date, waiting outside, used her L.D. to get in?
Outside, she found the HDFL man sitting on the curb with his hand over his mouth to takeen. Yes, his date was crying. Yes, the I.D. was here some place. Well, it was a minute ago. She had been dropped during the hubbub.
Reluctantly, she handed over the precious commodity and agreed to give him her notes. Perhaps they could study together sometime, she said, but she didn't think he heard her as he disappeared into the crowd. Perhaps he hadn't heard
"Okay, little girl," he said in a voice not unlike that of a German shepherd. "Let's see your I.D."
Later that night, she deposited three soggy cards on her friend's desk. On her own desk she found a piece of cold pizza. The evening, as a whole, was difficult to swallow.
Within the past several years, several bills have been presented in Congress to establish, or partly establish in particular, national health insurance program. None have passed.
Recent disclosures of fraud and abuse in the Medicaid program raise the question of what type of health care Americans can expect in the future.
A NATIONAL HEALTH plan would mean that the federal government would play the role of overseer of its citizens' health.
National health care becomes more likely
Within the past nine months, the investigation has resulted in 40 convictions. Nursing homes and other buildings estimates by Mathews, have overcharged the government more than $750 million a year.
By JAY BEMIS
Staff Writer
A task force of more than 180 examiners and investigators has been set up by David Mathews, secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, to crack down on nursing home and doctor corruption that exists in federal-state program that supplies $15 billion a year toward health care for the poor.
Health care plans in this nation's history—whether it be private, public, or assistance, Medicaid, Medicare or benefits from labor unions—have been beneficial to many. But in each program some are left out. Such is not the case with Canada's health program.
Canada's plan was begun in stages dating back to 1948, with the final step of insured health
IN LIGHT of this corruption, a national health insurance program looks even more probable in the future.
Hospital rates are set in compliance with annual cost budgets that are sent to the government for approval. The federal government pays 50 per cent of the health plan's costs, with the remainder funded by general tax revenues.
Many were afraid that Canada's doctors would be swamped once the national health program went into effect. That isn't so, according to Robert Armstrong, director of the Department for the Department of National Health and Welfare.
"Bringing in universal health insurance," Armstrong has said, "does not result in one person having an additional case may find one additional case you weren't aware of, and maybe that's a good thing." Canada's success has been supported by groups in the United States.
HIGH QUALITY care is insured Canadians under legislation that requires each province to develop a system of inspecting and licensing hospitals.
Although dozens of health care proposals have been in-
care for each citizen beginning in 1968.
HOSPITALS IN Canada,
although most still privately
owned, send their bills to the
bureau of police. The bills
are paid by the government.
The Kennedy-Corman bill would cover costs of health for the entire population, being funded 50 per cent by a payroll tax and 50 per cent by general government revenues. The total cost of the proposed program would be $88 billion.
There would be no cost sharing under the proposal, meaning that no out-of-the-pocket payments by patients for the program were made if the Kennedy-Corman were passed in its original form.
The plan would redistribute tax revenues among lower income families, which would increase to receiving tax rebates.
The administration and Kennedy-Mills bills, considered stronger proposals before introduction of the Kennedy-Corman bill, have been tied to Kennedy-Corman.
Members of Congress hope that by backing national health insurance at least three goals be met; insuring that all citizens have financial access to health care; increasing financial hardship of medical bills, and limiting the rise in health care costs.
produced in Congress, the closest to Canada's (and one of the more recent proposals) is the Kennedy-Corman bill, in which he signed a law toward Kennedy, D-Mass., and Rep. James Corman, D-Calif.
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