NBC Nightly News - 1977-06-24
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[0:02] This is NBC Nightly News with John
[0:04] Chancellor and David Brinkley. Tonight,
[0:07] Friday, June 24th, reported by John
[0:10] Chancellor from the NBC News Center in
[0:12] New York. Good evening. When President
[0:15] and Mrs. Carter finally figured out
[0:17] their 1976 income taxes, they discovered
[0:20] that they didn't owe the Treasury a
[0:22] cent. But today, the president disclosed
[0:24] that as a matter of principle, he will
[0:26] pay $6,000 tax on his gross income of
[0:30] 55,000. The White House made public
[0:33] copies of the Carter's joint return, and
[0:35] Bob Jameson has the details.
[0:39] In what may be the most unusual letter
[0:41] the IRS has ever received from a
[0:43] president, Mr. Carter asked the
[0:44] government to take $6,000 from him and
[0:47] his wife, even though they owed no
[0:48] income tax. The president wrote the IRS
[0:51] that because of his strong feeling that
[0:53] a person should pay some tax on his
[0:54] income, he wants the government to
[0:56] accept the payment, which the IRS says
[0:58] it will. The $6,000 represents about 15%
[1:02] of his net taxable income for 1976. It
[1:05] was, aid said, a logical standard. The
[1:08] president prepaid approximately $26,000
[1:11] in taxes, and now he will end up with a
[1:13] $20,000 refund.
[1:16] Mr. Carter didn't owe any taxes because
[1:18] he took an $11,675
[1:20] investment tax credit for a new peanut
[1:23] storage facility at Carter's warehouse
[1:24] in Planes. This cut his taxes to zero.
[1:28] The president's income in 1976 was
[1:30] nearly $55,000.
[1:33] In 1975, he earned $136,000.
[1:37] Aid said the difference was due to a
[1:38] decline in sales of farm supplies and
[1:40] services at Carter's warehouse. The
[1:43] $70,000 earned in royalties from his
[1:45] book, Why Not the Best, was not included
[1:47] in this year's return. The IRS ruled the
[1:50] money should be put on his 1977 return.
[1:53] The decision to give the government
[1:55] $6,000 was apparently made after Mr.
[1:57] Carter signed the return on June 6th.
[2:00] When asked if the payment is conscience
[2:02] money, press secretary Jodie Powell said
[2:04] no. The reason, he said, is just as
[2:06] stated. The president feels everybody
[2:08] should pay something. And furthermore,
[2:10] said Powell, the president won't deduct
[2:12] the $6,000 next year as a contribution.
[2:15] Bob Jameson, NBC News, at the White
[2:17] House.
[2:18] In 1973, Spiro Agnu resigned as vice
[2:22] president after pleading no contest, the
[2:24] equivalent of a guilty plea to charges
[2:26] of federal income tax evasion. Now, it
[2:29] has come to light that the tax people
[2:30] are after Agnu for almost $14,000 in
[2:34] back taxes and penalties for that same
[2:36] year. The IRS says Agnu failed to report
[2:39] as income services provided by the
[2:41] government and it disallowed certain
[2:43] other claims he put in for entertainment
[2:46] and expenses.
[2:48] Also on the program this evening, an
[2:49] important Supreme Court decision on
[2:51] parochial schools. More on the growing
[2:53] controversy over the neutron bomb which
[2:56] kills without destroying property. And a
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[4:09] >> The Supreme Court ruled today that
[4:10] states may pay for certain kinds of
[4:12] tests for students in church-run
[4:14] schools. But on the more important issue
[4:16] of state money for expensive teaching
[4:18] equipment for parochial schools, the
[4:20] high court said no. Today's decision
[4:22] came in a case brought in Ohio. Carl
[4:25] Stern reports.
[4:28] About a quarter million children go to
[4:30] church-run schools in Ohio. Nationwide,
[4:33] they number almost 5 million.
[4:36] Legislators in some states repeatedly
[4:38] have tried to help the churchrun
[4:40] schools, but have run a foul of
[4:41] constitutional problems. And today, the
[4:44] Supreme Court struck down major portions
[4:46] of a new Ohio law, which funneled $45
[4:49] million a year to the church schools.
[4:52] The Supreme Court said no to state help
[4:55] in purchasing teaching equipment, which
[4:57] these days can cost lots of money. Ohio
[5:00] had based its new law on the theory it
[5:02] was lending the equipment to the
[5:03] children and their parents, not the
[5:05] schools. But the court said no matter
[5:07] what the theory, such aid inevitably
[5:09] flows in part to assist the religious
[5:11] role of the schools. That view is
[5:14] disputed by officials of the Ohio
[5:16] Catholic Conference.
[5:17] If I have, for example, a little math
[5:19] machine that a child uses to help him
[5:21] with multiplication, addition, or
[5:23] subtraction, and if it's a fixed content
[5:25] piece of equipment, again, we find it
[5:27] difficult to see how anyone would
[5:29] suggest that you're aiding religion when
[5:32] you help a child with his multiplication
[5:34] tables.
[5:35] >> The court today did uphold the use of
[5:37] state money for health and educational
[5:39] testing of the students and therapy
[5:41] services. That was a victory for the
[5:43] church-run schools. They will continue
[5:46] to get tax money for textbooks and bus
[5:48] transportation approved some years ago,
[5:51] although the court today ruled out bus
[5:53] money for field trips for the schools.
[5:56] Church officials expressed some
[5:57] disappointment, but said they would
[5:59] oppose any reduction in state aid
[6:02] despite today's decision limiting what
[6:03] the money can be spent for. Carl Stern,
[6:07] NBC News, Washington.
[6:10] President Carter won a victory for his
[6:12] energy policy today in the House Ways
[6:14] and Means Committee. With a lot of help
[6:16] from the White House and despite a lot
[6:17] of opposition from car manufacturers,
[6:19] the committee approved without further
[6:21] cuts attacks on gas guzzling cars. John
[6:25] Cochran has more.
[6:28] Just two weeks ago today, President
[6:30] Carter was complaining about the power
[6:31] of the automakers lobby on Capitol Hill.
[6:34] Now it's the automakers who are
[6:36] complaining about a White House blitz.
[6:38] When the Ways and Means Committee met
[6:40] today, a lot of people, including these
[6:42] lobbyists from Detroit, thought the
[6:44] committee might vote to delay the
[6:45] president's gas guzzler taxes until 1980
[6:48] or later. But these White House
[6:49] lobbyists had worked overnight,
[6:51] convincing the committee there should be
[6:52] no delays. And the committee voted to
[6:55] impose the taxes in 1979 on cars that
[6:58] get fewer than 15 m per gallon. Chairman
[7:02] Alman said the president's lobbyists
[7:03] have improved their tactics recently.
[7:06] >> Well, the White House has made some
[7:07] mistakes. There's no question about
[7:09] that. But I think uh yes, they're doing
[7:12] a much better job. They uh they're
[7:14] they're learning the business.
[7:16] >> The Congressman Broadhead from Detroit
[7:18] said the White House should not be proud
[7:20] of killing off big cars.
[7:22] >> If you put the tax on a car, the car is
[7:24] not going to exist. I think that what we
[7:26] ought to be doing is nudging the
[7:27] industry along, pushing the industry
[7:29] along, but I don't think we ought to be
[7:30] punitive. And I think this tax is
[7:32] punitive.
[7:33] >> The president's energy advisers are
[7:35] feeling good about today's vote. and
[7:37] some of them predict that by the time
[7:38] the taxes on gas guzzlers pass both the
[7:41] House and the Senate, it will be even
[7:43] tougher on Detroit than those approved
[7:45] today. In the Senate, the tax bill must
[7:47] pass through Russell Long's finance
[7:49] committee. Long is from Louisiana. And
[7:52] one White House official said, "As far
[7:54] as I know, they don't make any cars in
[7:57] Louisiana."
[7:59] John Cochran, NBC News, the capital.
[8:02] The federal government today gave up its
[8:05] plan to convert signs on highways across
[8:07] the country to the metric system. The
[8:09] Federal Highway Administration says
[8:11] there's just too much opposition from
[8:13] the public to its proposal to change
[8:15] miles to kilometers.
[8:17] And under a law that went into effect
[8:19] today, all drinking water in the United
[8:21] States must now meet federal standards
[8:24] for purity for the first time.
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[9:30] >> Near Locust Grove, Oklahoma. Today,
[9:32] searchers hunted through woods and
[9:34] thickets for an escape convict charged
[9:36] with killing three girl scouts who were
[9:37] on a camping trip earlier this month.
[9:40] Mike Jackson reports.
[9:44] >> It was a posi. More than 200 towns
[9:46] people at Locust Grove at Sunrise today
[9:49] to help find the man charged with the
[9:51] killings.
[9:52] >> A line was formed here. We moved through
[9:55] here. The anchor people stay with this
[9:57] road.
[9:58] >> This is the man they are looking for.
[10:00] Gene Leroy Hart, an escaped convict
[10:03] sentenced to 110 years in prison for
[10:05] rape, kidnapping, and burglary.
[10:08] And this is where they looked. Skunk
[10:10] Mountain about a mile from the Girl
[10:12] Scout camp. A farmer said he saw Hart
[10:15] around here yesterday.
[10:17] It was a dragnet search. A line of men a
[10:20] mile long, several feet apart, climbing
[10:22] fences over several square miles, and
[10:25] hacking through the brushy forests.
[10:29] Police expected it would be difficult to
[10:31] find the suspect here in these hills
[10:33] because he is a native here, an
[10:35] outdoorsman, and has successfully evaded
[10:37] the police for more than four years
[10:39] since he escaped from the county jail in
[10:41] 1973.
[10:42] And even though he has relatives here,
[10:45] police do not think that they would
[10:46] shelter him. We know that they have
[10:49] harbored him in the past and supplied
[10:52] him in the past, but I think in view of
[10:56] this type crime, I feel like that
[10:59] they've thrown me into the wolves.
[11:02] >> Local, county, and state police searched
[11:04] another area not far away today. And
[11:06] their search was unsuccessful, too.
[11:11] Mike Jackson, NBC News, Locust Grove,
[11:14] Oklahoma.
[11:16] The Pentagon said today that all it
[11:18] needs to put the neutron warhead into
[11:20] production is an okay from President
[11:22] Carter and some money from the Congress.
[11:24] The neutron warhead kills people but
[11:26] destroys fewer buildings. It kills by
[11:28] radiation rather than blast. President
[11:31] Carter still hasn't decided on
[11:32] production of the neutron warhead. The
[11:34] Pentagon wants it, but some people in
[11:36] the Congress don't. Here are two
[11:38] reports.
[11:40] The Pentagon's first choice for the
[11:41] neutron warhead is the Lance, a
[11:43] battlefield missile which now carries a
[11:45] 1,000 ton nuclear warhead. If war broke
[11:48] out in Europe, these missiles would kill
[11:50] a lot of enemy soldiers and destroy a
[11:52] lot of enemy tanks, but they would also
[11:54] kill a lot of civilians in the process
[11:56] and ravage the land. The neutron warhead
[11:59] is only a tenth as destructive as
[12:01] current warheads. So, the Pentagon says
[12:03] they would kill just as many enemy
[12:04] soldiers, but greatly reduce casualties
[12:07] and damage in the surrounding
[12:08] countryside. The Pentagon also wants to
[12:11] put neutron warheads on some of its
[12:13] heavy artillery, like these 155mm
[12:16] howitzers and the larger 8-in guns.
[12:19] Russian tanks are now protected against
[12:21] radiation from nuclear fallout. But
[12:23] Pentagon sources say that the Soviet
[12:25] tanks, which badly outnumber NATO forces
[12:28] in Europe, could not survive the more
[12:30] intense radiation from neutron warheads.
[12:33] One expert in the Pentagon said using
[12:35] neutron warheads could set Russian tank
[12:37] technology back 10 to 20 years. So, the
[12:40] Pentagon believes neutron warheads are a
[12:42] deterrent to war. Under current
[12:44] conditions, the Russians might risk war
[12:46] in Europe, the Pentagon says. But with
[12:48] neutron warheads in the field, the
[12:50] Pentagon believes the Russians will
[12:51] think twice before launching an attack.
[12:54] Charles Quinn, NBC News, Washington.
[12:57] >> On Capitol Hill, opponents of the high
[12:59] radiation shell cannot argue against the
[13:01] weapon itself in public because it is
[13:03] classified. So they are suggesting the
[13:05] legislation is irregular. The president
[13:08] asking for the money without saying
[13:10] whether or not he wants the weapon. That
[13:12] says Senator Hatfield is taking the
[13:14] decision away from Congress. We got into
[13:16] the longest war in history in Vietnam
[13:19] because we had abdicated the
[13:20] constitutional responsibility of the
[13:22] Congress as much as by the fact the
[13:24] president was embarked upon bad policy.
[13:27] And I think we should have learned from
[13:29] that that we do not operate under a
[13:31] system of one-man rule. In the Congress,
[13:34] you're supposed to authorize spending
[13:36] before appropriating money. But the
[13:38] House already appropriated money for the
[13:40] neutron shell without authorizing it. In
[13:43] other words, they signed a check without
[13:45] the usual permission. Because of
[13:47] Hatfield, the Senate is sure to have a
[13:49] thorough argument before it is asked to
[13:51] co-sign the check. John Hart, NBC News
[13:54] at the capital.
[13:56] >> The Senate refused today to vote
[13:59] President Carter the money to carry out
[14:01] his blanket pardon of Vietnam draft
[14:03] evaders. The House had refused earlier,
[14:05] so it doesn't look as though the
[14:07] president will get the money for his
[14:08] program this year.
[14:11] At Fort Rucker, Alabama today, a board
[14:13] of officers recommended that Specialist
[14:15] Fourth Class Marie Soda be honorably
[14:18] discharged from the US Army. The board
[14:20] ruled that Specialist Soda is unsuitable
[14:22] for the Army because she is married to a
[14:25] transsexual, a woman who underwent
[14:27] hormone treatments to become a man. So's
[14:30] husband Christian von Hofberg is psycho
[14:33] psychologically a man, the board said,
[14:35] but biologically still a woman.
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[14:48] anywhere in America. Greyhound goes
[14:50] border to border, coast to coast. How
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[15:11] >> In 1962 when I got married, I didn't
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[15:17] and that included me. But ever since I
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[15:42] >> Secretary of State Cyrus Vance said
[15:44] today that the United States and the
[15:46] Soviet Union have a clear difference
[15:48] over the issue of human rights and
[15:49] substantial differences on arms control.
[15:52] In other fields, he said things are
[15:54] better. Vance met today with French
[15:56] President Valerie Jizkar Destang on a
[15:58] for a briefing on the visit of to France
[16:00] of Soviet President Brv and Jizcar have
[16:04] just finished three days of talks.
[16:07] Bishop Josiah Kabira was elected
[16:09] president of the Lutheran World
[16:11] Federation today. He is 52, an American
[16:14] educated Tanzanian, the first black ever
[16:17] to hold that post. the senior position
[16:19] in the Lutheran Church, which has 58
[16:21] million members.
[16:23] At the Wimbledon Tennis Championships
[16:26] today, it was youth versus age in the
[16:28] women's singles, and the old lady won
[16:30] the match. The old lady isn't really
[16:32] that old. Chris Ever is 22, but the kid
[16:35] who was playing her is just that, a kid,
[16:37] and this year's Wimbledon sensation.
[16:39] John Dancy reports.
[16:41] >> She looks like everybody's kid sister.
[16:44] hair in ponytails, braces on the teeth,
[16:46] and a passion for the Muppets. But when
[16:49] she hits a tennis ball, Tracy Austin
[16:51] looks like nobody's kid sister.
[16:55] >> She's 14 years old, and she's been
[16:57] playing since she was five. The last
[17:00] seven years under coach Bob Lansdorf.
[17:03] >> She is US women's junior champion in the
[17:05] under 16 division. And this year, she
[17:08] won enough points to compete at
[17:09] Wimbledon. Shoot.
[17:12] >> The youngest player in the history of
[17:14] the 100-year-old tournament.
[17:15] >> Nice shot.
[17:17] >> And is she nervous about playing in the
[17:19] biggest tournament in the world?
[17:21] >> Um, it's very exciting. Um, I always
[17:23] dreamed to play with the big women's
[17:25] stars and but I didn't think it would
[17:27] come so soon.
[17:29] >> Is it a little intimidating? Does it
[17:30] frighten you at all?
[17:32] >> No.
[17:33] >> You've got a little self-confidence,
[17:35] haven't you?
[17:35] >> I don't know. I just try to do my best.
[17:38] In her long dress, Tracy Austin looked
[17:40] somehow like a little girl on her way to
[17:42] a party as she and Miss Ever walked onto
[17:45] center court, and she captured the crowd
[17:47] completely.
[17:50] Tracy put together a series of backhands
[17:52] and forehands that held Miss Ever in her
[17:55] own court. To her surprise, Ever, who
[17:58] hadn't even bothered to remove her
[17:59] warm-up jacket, lost the first game, and
[18:02] the crowd burst into cheers for Tracy
[18:04] Austin.
[18:12] Miss Ever took off her jacket and began
[18:14] to bear down on the 14-year-old.
[18:18] She quickly got the match under control
[18:20] and went far ahead.
[18:28] There was never really any doubt that
[18:30] Tracy Austin would lose to Chris Ever,
[18:32] but neither was there any doubt who had
[18:34] won the hearts of the fans.
[18:46] The final score was 61 6-1. But Crazy
[18:49] Austin had played as cruy as any
[18:51] champion. And it was always next year.
[18:56] John Dansley, NBC News at Wimbledon.
[19:00] >> Somewhere east of Newfoundland this
[19:02] evening, riding gently in the swells, is
[19:04] a boat built of oxhides over a a wooden
[19:08] frame in the matter manner of a sixth
[19:10] century Irish kurak. Aboard are four men
[19:13] who left Ireland last year to prove that
[19:15] Irish seaman from that distant age may
[19:18] have been the first to reach America.
[19:19] And it looks as though they are going to
[19:21] make it.
[19:23] This is the boat and its crew as they
[19:25] left Ireland in 1976. The boat is called
[19:28] St. Brendan after an Irish monk who is
[19:30] thought to have made a journey like this
[19:32] long ago. It was cited yesterday by a
[19:34] Canadian Coast Guard vessel and the crew
[19:37] four crewmen were fine if a bit
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[21:15] And now, a special report on the
[21:17] literary scene. On some books that are
[21:19] phenomenal bestsellers, their author may
[21:22] not win prizes for literature, only the
[21:24] undying affection of her publisher. Here
[21:27] is Betty Rollins.
[21:29] >> 9:00 a.m. at a shopping mall in
[21:31] Shamberg, Illinois, and the line began 2
[21:34] hours ago. It's not a dress sale, nor is
[21:37] it Robert Redford. No, the object of all
[21:40] the attention, the person whose
[21:42] autograph is being sought is 41-year-old
[21:45] Kathleen Woodywitz, housewife, mother of
[21:49] three, and the woman whose typewriter is
[21:51] behind all this.
[21:54] >> Shauna has just been published and it's
[21:56] already in a seventh printing. That's
[21:58] 1,700,000
[22:00] books. Her last two books also sold
[22:03] spectacularly.
[22:05] And Mrs. Woodywiss is not alone. She is
[22:08] one of a stable of women writers of
[22:10] historical, some say hysterical romance
[22:13] that keep these presses running for
[22:15] millions of buyers. For the publishers
[22:18] involved, paperback tales of heroins
[22:20] quivering under krenolins crushed
[22:23] against gentlemen with swords, beards,
[22:25] and flaring nostrils have become big
[22:28] business. Very big business.
[22:31] I think these books are the most
[22:33] significant event in current publishing
[22:37] in America.
[22:39] Uh they represent to us in three writers
[22:43] about 25 million copies out in the
[22:46] market which will produce a gross sale
[22:48] of about $50 million.
[22:50] >> One reason these books sell so well is
[22:53] how they're sold and where. The
[22:55] promotion and advertising campaign for
[22:57] Shana has been tremendous. And for a
[23:00] mass market paperback, the book itself
[23:02] is both unusually large and expensive,
[23:06] $3.95.
[23:08] And the book is being sold not only in
[23:10] bookstores, but in supermarkets, just a
[23:13] cart roll away from the ketchup and the
[23:16] canned corn. Still, what sells the likes
[23:19] of Shaana is primarily what's inside.
[23:24] And here's what all the fuss is about.
[23:27] His mouth swooped down upon hers,
[23:29] twisting, bruising, rousing. Shana
[23:32] struggled weakly, trying to summon some
[23:34] logic from the chaos in her mind.
[23:36] Pleasure seeped through the barrier of
[23:38] her own will. The brutal crush of his
[23:41] lips on hers, his strong arms holding
[23:44] her clasped to his workh hardened frame
[23:47] became somehow bearable, and she was
[23:49] answering, not fighting anymore, growing
[23:52] warm.
[23:53] A kiss is a really big deal in these
[23:55] books.
[23:57] >> Some of the other books of this genre
[23:58] are racier than Mrs. Woody Whisses, but
[24:01] it seems it is not explicit sex that the
[24:04] readers go for. It's explicit mush and
[24:07] implicit escape.
[24:10] >> It gets you away from everyday life, you
[24:12] know. Um,
[24:14] >> what's wrong with your everyday life?
[24:16] >> Nothing. But it's so routine. It kind of
[24:17] gets you away from the routine.
[24:19] >> Do you think these books are sexy? No.
[24:23] Very moral.
[24:25] Um, if there is a sexy passage, it's
[24:29] always with her husband. Takes me away
[24:32] from the housework, the dirty dishes,
[24:34] the kids, the bills. Just an escape.
[24:38] It's terrific. What is What kind of an
[24:41] escape?
[24:43] Well,
[24:45] into the 17th century. And I am Heather.
[24:48] And I just get away. It's terrific. Like
[24:52] you become that character you're reading
[24:54] about,
[24:54] >> right? I should be so lucky.
[24:56] >> How does your husband feel about your He
[24:58] thinks I'm screwy.
[24:59] >> He thinks I'm screwy.
[25:02] >> Um
[25:03] >> Kathleen Woodywith has her own view of
[25:05] what her books are all about. And it's
[25:07] not so different from that of her
[25:09] readers.
[25:10] >> It's just
[25:12] really a fairy tale. And it's just to
[25:16] give pleasure for a time. I do not
[25:19] intend ever to um
[25:23] give people more trouble than what they
[25:25] have and it's just an escape and that's
[25:28] what I intend it to be and nothing
[25:30] serious. I don't uh you know try to get
[25:35] across any morals or anything. So
[25:39] is the sex in the book part of the the
[25:42] escape?
[25:44] Well, a sex is part of life and I try to
[25:47] treat it with respect. I think sex can
[25:50] be dirty and I try to stay away from
[25:54] that. So, I try to put it in a a
[25:57] beautiful vein. So, how do you do that?
[26:01] >> Um, well, I guess I have to get in the
[26:04] mood.
[26:07] These days, Mrs. Woodywith needs some
[26:09] escape herself and she gets it in rural
[26:11] Minnesota where she lives with her
[26:13] husband, a retired Air Force major.
[26:16] When Mrs. Woodywith isn't grinding out
[26:19] romance, which she does 8 hours a day,
[26:22] six and sometimes seven days a week, she
[26:24] partakes in a bit of it herself. All the
[26:27] ingredients are there. One prince
[26:30] charming, one lovely lake, and $2
[26:32] million in book royalties to make all of
[26:35] that romance a little more real.
[26:38] Betty Rollins, NBC News, Princeton,
[26:41] Minnesota.
[26:45] >> Well, that's it for this evening. David
[26:47] Brinkley remains on vacation, but John
[26:50] Hart will be here on Saturday, Katherine
[26:52] Macken on Sunday, and I'll be back on
[26:53] Monday. Until then, good night for NBC
[26:56] News.
[27:01] As an apricot grower, I'm mighty
[27:03] particular about apricot flavored
[27:05] desserts. Well, we found one that's just
[27:07] terrific. New apricot flavored Jell-O
[27:09] brand gelatin.
[27:10] >> Sweet, but tart like apricots, so I can
[27:12] make lots of new apricot flavored
[27:14] desserts my family loves.
[27:16] >> I like it.
[27:17] >> M. It even smells like apricots. Mommy,
[27:20] does it grow on trees?
[27:21] >> No, silly.
[27:22] >> But it sure tastes like it does. You
[27:25] >> new apricot flavored jello brand
[27:27] gelatin. There's something new in
[27:29] apricot country.
[27:31] >> Is short hair in, Sally?
[27:33] >> Yes, but white gloves are out. Not when
[27:36] you've got age spots. Those brown
[27:38] patches. Ah, don't hide them. Fade them
[27:40] with esoterica. Use daily as directed.
[27:43] Esoterica works below the skin surface.
[27:46] In most cases, age spots rise and fade
[27:49] off.
[27:50] No gloves, Mrs. Davis. No problems,
[27:53] Sally. That esoterica really works.
[27:56] >> Don't hide a spots, feed them with
[27:59] esoterica.
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[28:55] >> When do you say
[28:57] Budweiser?
[28:58] >> When it's pick a pair time.
[29:01] >> And also Harry's poker night.
[29:03] >> Yes indeed. Pick a pair time is the
[29:05] perfect time to say Budweiser. Uh twice.
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