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...near-unanimous opinion of U.S. scientists, President Nixon is ignoring what Candidate Nixon said. At a time when drastic, all-around budget trimming is obviously necessary -confronting the Administration with some painful choices-sensible scientists do not expect research appropriations to keep growing at the beanstalk rate of the early 1960s, but they have hoped to maintain reasonable, normal growth. Instead, they have suffered cutbacks and hold-downs for two years, and now the Administration has submitted a budget that, despite rising costs, will keep the level of federal spending for research virtually unchanged through June 1971. As a result...
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Gene Kelly in a part cartoon musical version of the giant-killing classic. Repeat...
...really could dance"), mugged with Danny Kaye, hosted the Hollywood Palace, narrated documentaries on silent movies and baseball, and starred in four one-hour specials and his own series, Going My Way. This year he was awarded an Emmy for the best children's program, Jack and the Beanstalk, in which he danced with animated characters, a technique he helped pioneer in Anchors Aweigh in 1945. Between times, he emceed the 1965 Arts Festival at the White House and toured West Africa as a cultural ambassador for the State Department...
...both the Redgrave girls, particularly for Vanessa. Her father once introduced her to friends as "my daughter Vanessa?she'll never be an actress, so we're having her do languages. That way she can always get a job with an airline or something." She grew like a beanstalk on a hill of hormones. One day, after staring appalled at her reflection, she broke into tears and telephoned her mother, who was weekending in the country. "Mummy! Mummy!" she cried, "I just looked in your mirror and I can't see my head!" Daddy as usual had the answer...
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A musical transplant of the fairy tale sets real people (Gene Kelly and Bobby Riha) and cartoon characters dancing to the jaunty songs of Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen...