NBC Leads Week With All Star Baseball Atop Ratings
NBC claims its first number one showing of the year as the 50th Annual All-Star Baseball Game draws about 18 million viewers. CBS remains dominant overall, with ABC close behind, and NBC's CHiPs ranked 16th in the Nielsen top 20 for the week ending Sunday.
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Area TV Listings Thursday Night Schedule Fragment
Readable TV guide fragment lists programs across networks for Thursday night. Entries include news shows sitcoms games and films such as News Over Easy Family Feud The Odd Couple Hawaii Five 0 Mashes Carter Country Barnaby Jones 20 20 CBS News and late movie Duel in the Sun with various time slots and channel labels.
Win at Bridge In Duplicate and Rubber play
The article discusses overtricks and risk in bridge. It explains South counting nine top tricks after the lack of spades forces East to reveal strength. A diamond sequence and a planned squeeze set up an 11th trick by giving West a chance to contribute.
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Thursday Theater Times Feature Schedule
Long Branch shows Carousel at 7:30 and 9:40. Iowa screens Moonraker at 7:30 and 9:30. World presents Escape from Alcatraz at 7:30 and 9:30. Plaza runs Alien at 7:30 and 9:35. Stage 1 shows The In-laws at 7:40 and 9:40. Stage 2 features Rocky II at 7:30 and 9:45. Stage 3 presents The Main Event at 7:35 and 9:50. Stage 4 offers Bloodline with R rating. Eastown I shows CHOMPS at 7:30 and 9:20. Eastown II screens Good Guys Wear Black at 7:35 and 9:30. Collins offers 101 Dalmatians at 9:10 and Herbie the Love Bug at 10:40. Twin West shows Prophecy at 9:05 and Phantasm at 11:05. Twin East screens Hooper at 9:05 and Outlaw Blues at 11.
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Bridge Play by Auction Passers Leads to Opening
A bridge record notes the opening lead after a sequence of Pass bids with no bids from North, South opening with a single club lead and East-West response implied by the Pass sequence.
Moon rocks test and Apollo XI arrival at Pearl Harbor
On this date in 1969 scientists began testing the first rocks returned from the moon while Apollo XI astronauts arrived in Pearl Harbor after their historic moon landing and splashdown in the Pacific. East held six cards and the deal referenced bridge play with knights and hearts.
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Reynolds and Gershenson to Produce The Executioner at Fox
Burt Reynolds and David Gershenson named producers for 20th Century Fox on The Executioner based on Don Pendleton's Mack Bolan novels. Filming is planned for 1980, marking Reynolds first producing effort in a project he does not star in and Gershenson's producing debut.
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Mack Bolan
Richard Berger
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A corny distinction at Antioch fire department corn boil
About 1,500 people attended the Antioch Volunteer Fire Department event consuming 40 pounds of hot dogs 80 pounds of hamburger 35 gallons of corn and 6 000 ears. In the corn eating contest Clark Churchwell 18 of Cedartown won by eating 221 ears in under 30 minutes. Weldon Edwards 15 of Rockmart took second with 201 ears. The fundraiser raised about 1,500 for firefighting equipment.
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Antioch Volunteer Fire Department
Clark Churchwell
Cedartown
Weldon Edwards
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