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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1981
Page
17
A concise slate of local cable news items covers community updates, education notes, stock watchers, sports highlights, weather briefings, and public access programming. Readers gain quick access to the week’s notable local developments across multiple channels.
Mixed program lineup lists shows across networks with time slots from 6:00 to 10:00 PM. Entries include entertainment specials sports broadcasts and news segments featuring programs like HBO All That Jazz CBS Movie and NFL Game of the Week alongside dramas comedies and educational features.
TV listings note a 7 p.m. ABC program featuring John Denver with the Muppets performing songs including A Christmas Wish and Christmas Is Coming. The schedule also lists Father Murphy on NBC, a CBS movie About Bill with Mickey Rooney at 8 p.m., plus a variety of late-night and network programs through the night.
National Geographic reports that slime molds, a cousin of mushrooms, number about 500 species. They begin as primitive animal like masses, morph into fungus like spore bearing fruiting bodies, then revert to blob forms in a puzzling life cycle.
A one year old reindeer named Rudolph bolted from a department store Christmas exhibit with his companion Dancer. He was pursued by a police patrol, animal control and traffic, eventually cornered in a backyard and hogtied before being returned to his pen inside the Emporium store where he was described as quiet and hungry.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts the first international loan exhibition dedicated to Mamluk art (1250 to 1517) through January 10, 1982. The show, organized with the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service, features 123 objects from the Louvre, the British Museum, and Middle East institutions, previously shown in Washington and Minneapolis.
A witty exchange notes the Soviet Union’s alleged readiness to close eyes and count to 100 as a metaphor for hiding missiles. The joke reflects tensions and public sentiment during the Cold War era.
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