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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1977
Page
9
Friday night listings from Cedar Rapids Davenport Des Moines Rock Island Moline Waterloo Ames include news and entertainment blocks. Networks 2 6 8 9 12 feature programs from Adam 12 Hee Haw Gunsmoke Police Woman and Rockford Files with movies and talk shows across multiple stations.
The Metropolitan Opera announces four new productions for the 1977-78 slate La Favorita Rigoletto Tannhauser and Thais with stars Cornell MacNeil Ileane Cotrubas Domingo Diaz James McCracken Rysanek Bumbry Sills Milnes Pavarotti and Verrett Dec 22 Jan 18 Feb 21 Oct 10 premiere dates and season start.
A list of speeding and traffic violations shows numerous defendants from Iowa and nearby states fined varying amounts. Names include David E Barrett and Larry F McEowen with penalties from 10 to 50 dollars plus costs. Additional offenses cover disobeying signals improper muffler license violations and driving on the wrong side with fines from 10 to 50 dollars.
Wilma Rudolph the Olympic star and Congress member Adam Clayton Powell will be subjects of NBC television movies next season. Bud Greenspan will write direct and produce Wilma about Rudolph, who rose from disability to three 1960 Rome gold medals, while Universal Television will produce The Adam Clayton Powell Story with Joel Oliansky writing and directing.
South opens with five clubs after partner reaches four spades and North raises to five diamonds. South stops at five spades, hoping for six. West cashes two heart tricks, then South wins the rest. the narrative notes a rule about not using Blackwood with worthless doubletons and the heart lead obstacle preventing six.
A Wisconsin reader asks why East and West never participate in the column. The answer rests on tradition and convenience. Since the first column, South or "Z" has been declared to ease writing and reading for both readers and writers.
In Micanopy, Wallace Smith and William Walker tied at 80 votes each for a city council seat. County official J.K. Irby flipped a coin after no runoff existed, Walker’s call of tails yielded heads for Smith, as law directs.
White House press secretary Jody Powell says he might face a hypothetical scenario where lying could be a close call. He notes integrity versus consequences, asking whether his honesty or another person’s life would be at stake. He adds the general rule is no, but cannot rule out a rare exception.
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