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...Saigon. About 3,000 Diem supporters marched to the city's Victorian cathedral to attend a memorial service, then moved on to a nearby cemetery where Diem lies buried under an inconspicuous concrete slab. Gongs tolled. Drums thumped. Buddhist monks intoned prayers. Two Catholic bands played the national anthem...
...make a record for them called Senator Sam at Home. Result: a coup running over with homilies. Bloviating through 77 years of memories, Sam Ervin laces his bourbon with saccharin and recites his favorite lyrics-Grow Tall My Son and Through the Years. Moving to sterner stuff (our national anthem, the First Amendment and Rudyard Kipling's ode to the governing class: "If you can keep your head when all about you/ Are losing theirs"), Uncle Sam then opines that the King James Bible is the best "road map to travel by through this world." Finally he pays tribute...
...chant of the union's anthem made a nice show for the press, but he seemed to overlook the obvious factionalism among workers on the picket lines at several of Chrysler's Detroit area plants...
FLIP WILSON PRESENTS: The Helen Ready Show (NBC, Thursday, 8-9 p.m. E.D.T.). Helen Reddy won a Grammy last year for her recording of I Am Woman, which has since become a sort of anthem for the Women's Liberation movement. The show's timid overtones of feminism, however, are not allowed to disturb its stolid, unimaginative variety-show format. Hampered by painfully writer-stricken interim patter, Ms. Reddy has neither the presence nor the experience to spark the old string-of-guests routine to life...
...Fame, the whole one-nighters-through-the-Midlands group. The music? Who knew? Mott more or less stormed back onto the music scene at the tender mercies of David Bowie, who'd decided to Do Something with these boys. The single was "All the Young Dudes," maybe a homosexual anthem, and an album of same. It was an interesting example of expediency in action. Bowie's no longer producing Mott, and who knows just whose banner these guys are waving...