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...celebrated Race for Space, but the networks refused to show it, saying that they would never broadcast a public-affairs show over which they had not had total production control. So Wolper sold the program to 110 stations around the country, gaining as much exposure as he could have gotten on any network, plus major stories in the papers about the wretched treatment he was getting from ABC, CBS and NBC. As a result, "everybody wanted to see what the hell was being withheld," he says...
...Cowan replies: This debate has gotten quite far away from my original article. There, I tried to summarize Baldwin's New Yorker essay, to point out that his white readers, because of the way their lives are organized, would have great difficulty in understanding or accepting the terms of his argument; and finally to point out that Baldwin's effort to state an extremely important case time and time again might ultimately conflict with his efforts to treat other, related subjects both in essays and in his novels...
...born a Tartar, not a Russian. It is his Tartar blood, says Nureyev, that gives him "something in common with wild, untamable animals." What he needs most, and in this even his admirers agree, is a little taming-the kind of rigid discipline that he might well have gotten had he stayed in Russia...
...result of all three networks' New York-based parochialism. NBC noted Rockefeller's victory in New York as early as 7:30 and left it almost unmentioned thereafter, forgetting that at that time it was still only 5:30 Mountain time and many viewers had not even gotten home from work. California viewers, flipping on their sets after dinner around 9 o'clock (midnight in New York), had a hard time finding out who had won in Ohio or Pennsylvania...
...Watson has already received a letter of advice on how to cure his cold ("by putting pressure on key zones of the feet") and a request for a recipe for cupcakes made from algae. In addition, he has gotten the following masterworks...