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...Ohio State "TV majors " But the pros by any other nam are still the pros, and they log daily hours in front of TV that would make a union man scream for overtime pay; The leading contender for academe s top tubeman is the University of Texas Saleh Abdulrahman Athel, a studei from Saudi Arabia who started watching to learn English, then just stayed and stayed and stayed. Now, on his Magnavox portable he soaks up eleven hours a day. "Everything's fine with TV" he beams, "except the blasted commercials." He's not exactly sure...
...Athel" Spilhaus, as his Minneapolis friends call him, was born in South Africa, the grandson of the Scottish founder of the country's educational system and son of Premier Jan Smuts's Portuguese-German trade commissioner. Ever since he left Cape Town to drive with his bride to Cairo, Spilhaus has been doing and saying things that astonish his less impulsive colleagues...