Word: robins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last Mile. Whatever the merits of TV's coverage, some observers felt that, good or bad, it hurt the convention, that the whole show was too heavily rigged for TV effects. BBC Correspondent Robin Day, pointing out that TV cameras are forced to the back of the rbom in British conventions, said he thought the cameras injure the freedom of the U.S. press, killing off "the valid idea of off-the-record remarks," as politicians eagerly seek TV exposure and then produce floods of "blather and gobbledygook...
...success: a Canadian Mountie series, snapped up by 20 U.S. cities the first week it was shown. Coming soon: a crime series based on Simenon's Inspector Maigret. Meanwhile ITV, far from dawdling on its domestic dollies, is cranking up its own shows for export to the U.S. (Robin Hood is an ITV series already seen on American screens...
Tate (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A new West ern series with a Robin Hoodish hero...
...Kalapur, and get him there fast. But 300 miles of rebel-infested territory lie between the fort and Kalapur, and in crossing it a rescue party would stand about as much chance as a moth in a monsoon-unless, of course, the party is accompanied by an ingenious scriptwriter (Robin Estridge) with a trunk full of assorted jaws of death, nicks of time, hair's breadths, fell swoops, stiff upper lips, white man's burdens and whys not to reason...
...miniature mockingbird. A very tiny, slender mite, even smaller than a chickadee, blue-gray above and whitish below . . . long, contrastingly colored tail." It migrates through the whole of Texas, winters in the southern part, breeds in the northern. The black-tailed gnatcatcher has "less white on tail." Among the robin's maculate cousins, "the reddish tail is the hermit thrush's mark." The deadpan statement, "red eye is of little aid," has nothing to do with liquor but refers to the red-eyed vireo - better "characterized by the gray cap and the black-bordered white 'eyebrow...