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Publishers are facing comparable pressures in Brookline, Mass., Detroit, Seattle, Dallas, Atlanta and New York City. Major textbook packagers such as Ginn, Silver Burdett, Houghton Mifflin, Harper & Row and Scott, Foresman have all been singled out. And there are indications that some of them have begun thinking about costly reform projects to eliminate stereotyping, just as they have already expunged, in some cases, editorial sins against blacks...
...pure invention. William de la Touche Clancey is a mischievous and gratuitous bit of satire whom followers of Vidal's TV errors and trials should have little trouble identifying. Charlie Schuyler is, according to the author, a young opportunistic journalist "based roughly on the obscure novelist Charles Burdett." This is a flimsy bit of deception. Burdett was so obscure a novelist that he is not listed in any of the standard literary references. Historians, however, readily identify him as Burr's adopted-possibly natural...
TODAY (NBC, 7-11:30 a.m.). Ray Scherer and Barbara Walters at Caernarvon Castle in Wales witness Prince Charles' investiture as Prince of Wales. CBS will cover the same ground with Morley Safer and Winston Burdett (8-11:30 a.m., with highlights broadcast from 10-10:30 p.m.), while ABC's Frank Reynolds and George Watson will cover the ceremonies from...
MIDDLE EAST PERSPECTIVE: "CAN PEACE BREAK OUT?" (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Interviews with Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol and top Arab leaders. Mike Wallace is the anchor man, backed up by Winston Burdett in Israel, Richard C. Hottelet from the U.N., and Marvin Kalb, Bob Evans and Bill McLaughlin in Jordan...
Tuesday, December 20 CBS REPORTS: HARVEST OF MERCY (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Charles Kuralt and Winston Burdett report on this year's famine in India and the massive rescue effort, headed by the U.S., that has saved an estimated 70 million Indians from starvation...