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...they pleased. But they spent much more than that. Explains McMahon: "We misused the money in the sense that we paid out money before we had anything else coming [back] in." Says Thelma Gray: "They looted the treasury and dumped it into that motion picture." For all that, Sabra Command, starring David Janssen, is not likely even to be released because of its uneven quality...
...prisoners held by the Syrians smashed some of the windows of the Knesset, Israel's parliament. They were demanding stronger government action to free the prisoners. Moreover, public irritability is bound to grow as the economic dislocation caused by the war gets worse. Last week the military command extended the "high state of alert" an additional 90 days. That meant that at least 165,000 Israelis-about 15% of the labor force-who were mobilized into the armed forces will be away from their vitally needed work in factories, shops and fields that much longer...
...Stone making a general point about the dangers of newsmen getting chummy with their sources, then cuts away to a scene of Ron Ziegler playing tennis with an ABC correspondent, while Tricia Nixon looks on. He shows Stone elaborating on the general slipperiness of public officials, with their easy command of doubletalk, then brings the point home with a fast, funny clip from an old press conference by then Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in which McNamara steps around a tough question with the hurried delicacy of a haughty pedestrian avoiding something ugly on the sidewalk...
Earlier, soon after the astronauts had docked their command module with Skylab, Pogue (who had shown the least susceptibility to motion sickness during tests on earth) became queasy and coughed up a mouthful of vomit. As a safety measure Mission rules require that all such incidents be reported immediately to the ground. But the crew decided to keep quiet: "It's just between you, me and the couch," said Pogue. There was only one hitch: the astronauts forgot that all conversations in the command module were being taped and later piped to the ground. After discovering the coverup, Chief...
...Violin and Piano (Op. 11, no. 4) was the standout of the evening. The sonata is an exciting work, and it is especially difficult because of passages which require extremely exact timing. Seth Carlin returned to the piano to accompany Marcus Thompson, whose Julliard training showed in his solid command of the difficult piece. Many people find Hindemith difficult to listen to (the Nazis expelled him from Germany as "a musical Bolshevik."), but the Sonata for Viola and Piano reflects Hindemith's deep regard for the tonal qualities of the viola, expressing the melodic and emotionally moving potential...