Wagner shaping TV path with It Takes a Thief success
The article traces actor Robert Wagner in the late 1960s moving from film roles to television. It notes studio hesitations, a pivotal deal with Universal, and his lead in It Takes a Thief on ABC, which boosted his career and helped ABC’s midseason ratings. Wagner’s return to TV strengthened his status despite early industry doubt.
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Bob Thomas
Rope
Elywood
Hiss
St. Ebert Wagner
Univer Lyent
East
Mister
Roberts
Natalie
Wagner
Wood
Paul New
Cop
Universal
Heuce
ABC
Whem Wagner
Red Skelton
20Th Cen
Jerry Lewis
Wagstorygrox
Prince Val
Fox
Abandoned Noisy Church Serves Deaf Worshipers
AMI Florida AP report: the Rev Walter Busby leads a Lutheran Deaf Zion service in a building with a white cross on Spanish tile, as jets from Opa-Locka Airport fly over. The noise drove the congregants to relocate, while the Mormon inquiry faded.
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Busby
Trinity Deaf Zion
Harry F. Laduke
27Th Avenue
Laduke
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mormon
Get What You Like Or Like What You Get
HAL Boyle surveys odd facts from mail and daily life. He notes wives sold for money, gold in trees, schools lacking libraries, spider mothers, Swiss courting notes, and aging Americans' income gaps. Quotation bits from Shaw and Shaw-like musings frame a light anecdotal column.
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Hal Boyle
New York
National Geographic
Woodsman
America
Ravesick
George Bernard Shaw
Tonga Islands
Pacific
Crackdown on foreign airline use by government travelers
Washington AP reports NSF and AID crack down on scientists using foreign airlines on government funded travel to India and other destinations. The effort aims to curb the travel drain and reduce the balance of payments deficit while contractors and other non government staff are urged to use U.S. carriers. Officials say enforcement is being stepped up and may involve substantial travel costs, though exact dollars are not estimated.
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Dick Barnes Washington
National Science Foundation
Agency For International Development
U.S
Johnson
Associated Press
India
NSF
Trav
Russell Dilts
Asistant Direct
AID
Office of Technical Support
National Science Foundaton
Chesapeake Bay Seafood Week Proclaimed in Maryland
Governor Agnew designates March 10 to 16, 1968 as Chesapeake Bay Seafood Week to boost the Bay fisheries industry. The proclamation cites a $60 million annual Maryland economic contribution and the Seafood Market Development program. A public luncheon at Lexington Market and a seafood display with free recipes are planned for editors and the general public.
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Chesapeake Bay
Spiro T. Agnew
Maryland
Seafood Market Development Division
Baltimore
J Lexington Market
Department of Chesapeake Bay Affairs
Lexington Market
Chesapeake
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DR. Zhivago
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COM Pictures
Martin
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Walt Disney
Eartha
Ramo
Haly
Cheasapeake Bay
Mrs
Blanche
Bomberger
Hagerstown
Lancaster
Ain
Maxwell House
Florida
PT Oe
Long Meadow Shopping Center
Virginia Ave
Waynesboro, Pa
Pennsylvania
Waynesboro
Decker's Nursing Home
Hermon Decker
Cito Reed
McCennetlaberg
Tagg's
Cori Fairground & Mulberry Sta
Aelia
Beneficial
Car Beneficial Finance Co
Washington Street
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