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SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:30 p.m.). Stalag 17, the 1953 prisoner-of-war movie to end all prisoner-of-war movies. William Holden won an Academy Award for this...
Over almost universal criticism of his award of the TFX jet fighter contract to General Dynamics instead of Boeing-which Air Force experts said had submitted a better and less expensive design-McNamara steadfastly insisted that "it was the most important single action we have taken thus far to reduce the number of different weapons systems in our inventory...
...challenge to Americans in all walks of life, notably including journalism. That particular challenge was discussed last week by Time Inc. Editorial Chairman Henry R. Luce in a speech to the Magazine Publishers Association. The occasion was the M.P.A.'s presentation of the Henry Johnson Fisher Award to Luce for "outstanding achievement in magazine publishing," an award named after the late chairman of McCall's and Popular Science companies. The speech set forth some basic thoughts on the function of magazines that will be of interest to TIME readers...
...back to Kansas City to pay tribute to their alma mater and its longtime editor, Roy A. Roberts, 77, who retired last January. The occasion was the 85th anniversary of the Star, but the star attraction was Roberts. Amid steaks, Bloody Marys, speeches, reminiscences and a Sigma Delta Chi award to the Star, guests could hardly decide whether they were more surprised that their crusty old editor had slimmed from 300 Ibs. to 185 or that he had finally given up control of the Star. But on one thing they all agreed: the paper will never be quite the same...
...couple of nights after her Emmy award for My Name is Barbra, her first and only starring appearance on television, Funny Girl Barbra Streisand, 23, was puttering around with her pet poodle backstage at Broadway's Winter Garden, when who should drop by but the New York Jets' $400,000 bonus-baby Quarterback Joe Namath, 22, unfresh from what he hoped would be his one and only appearance for the U.S. Army. Waiting the word on whether his gimpy right leg had passed an Army draft physical, Joe clowned with his shades and the poodle. Barbra smiled...