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...Twenty Letters to a Friend. Svetlana has since had some second thoughts. In her latest book, Only One Year, published this week by Harper & Row, she pictures her father as a despot who brought about a bloody terror that destroyed millions of people-in sum, "a moral and spiritual monster...
...that he had testified falsely against some 250 supposed Reds), Matusow now lives and plots in London. He is the self-appointed president of the International Society for the Abolition of Data Processing Machines, which claims 1,500 members. Like Matusow, they look on the computer as an exploitative monster that has turned on its creator...
...their major mission in life were to rescue TV-at least in its present form -from extinction. Moviegoers find SAVE FREE TV inscribed on marquees and are asked to sign petitions to Congress on behalf of the old archenemy. Between pictures, a message flashes onscreen warning about "the monster" out to "charge you for the very TV programs you now get free...
...monster under attack is pay-TV, the proposed complement to existing TV service that has been awaiting a final go-ahead from the Federal Communications Commission in Washington since the early 1950s. Pay-television companies would provide subscribers with a special TV-set attachment that decodes scrambled signals to bring such features as Broadway shows, operas and first-run movies. The campaign to slay the monster is led by the National Association of Theater Owners (NATO to the trade) and supported by some projectionists' union locals. Legitimate theaters are not a part of the national association or its fight...
Slob Area. Exhorting the Illinois chapter of NATO, Campaign Co-Chairman Henry Plitt proclaimed that "the monster can destroy every movie house in the U.S. When the marquee lights go out, it doesn't take long for the small community to become a slob area, a slum." NATO also warns that pay-TV puts traditional TV in jeopardy and "discriminates drastically against the poor...