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Back to Quiz. NBC will also begin a drama series about a blackboard-jungle Tarzan, Mr. Novak, with James Franciscus as the muscular teach. Then the viewer can graduate to ABC's Channing, a university with ivy and all-"a world in microcosm," says ABC, "reflecting an alltime interest in the college scene." Thus prepared, the viewer is at last ready for the first big-money quiz show in five years. ABC, figuring TV has outlived the shame of its scandals, has plunged on a new quiz program named for its top take, 100 Grand. The network nostalgically insists...
...Spoleto was one of the least glamorous. At the unlikely hour of noon, S.R.O. audiences jammed the 370-seat white-and-gold Teatro Caio Melisso for one-hour chamber-music concerts. Most came in shirtsleeves, and the musicians were equally casual. Programs were not printed, but scrawled on a blackboard outside the theater only a few hours before curtain time. They were still subject to change whenever someone in the audience shouted a request loudly enough...
...other distant schools. Geologist Knight spent his youth studying the badlands the way a city kid takes in the movies. He might have made a fortune in mining, chose instead to teach on a salary that for 30 years did not top $5,000. Knight is famous for stunning blackboard sketches using multicolored chalk, and for his summer science camp, which has drawn 2,000 collegians from all over...
...Shopping List. What is a whiz kid? Well, by definition he is young and bright. The tools of his Pentagon trade are a piece of chalk, a blackboard on which to slash equations, and a computing machine. Dispassionate, cold analysis is his business, and Systems Analyst Enthoven has no peer. His analysis of the workings of the Pentagon goes as follows: "I think it can best be described as a continuing dialogue between the policymaker and the systems analyst, in which the policymaker [McNamara] asks for alternative solutions to his problems, while the analyst attempts to clarify the conceptual framework...
...archaic lighting in such chambers as Emerson D and the Geological Lecture Room, the lack of writing boards in the Fogg lecture room, and the use of rooms bombarded with the sounds of a growing Harvard. And certainly it would not strain University finances to refinish the blackboard in Lowell Lecture Hall...