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Skag
Skag is an American drama series that aired on NBC and starred Karl Malden. "Skag" originated as a three-hour television movie that aired on January 6, 1980 (as an installment of "The Big Event"). Over a week later, it then premiered as a weekly series, Thursdays at 10/9c, which ran from January 17, 1980, until its cancellation on February 21, 1980.
"Skag" focused on the life of a foreman at a Pittsburgh steel mill. Malden described
Skag", slang term for heroin
- Xerox, best-known manufacturer (at the time of the poem's writing) of photocopying machines
- Richard Nixon, 37th president of the United States
- John N. Mitchell, U.S. Attorney General under Nixon
- General Creighton Abrams, one of the commanders of military operations in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War
- Mendel Rivers, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee during the period of the Vietnam War (Rivers' name appears in the original 1970 recording,