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...Moore Show. Dropped were Alias Smith and Jones, a western inspired by the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and The Sixth Sense, a pseudo-mystery about extrasensory perception that showed absolutely no prescience about what viewers wanted. As replacements, ABC has scheduled a new comedy starring Shirley Booth called A Touch of Grace-based, like several recent TV successes, on a British series-and a sitcom titled Here We Go Again, starring Larry Hagman and Diane Baker, as a newly married couple who live near their ex-spouses...
...itself an analgesic. "For best results," read its ad, "take NBC News." Another took to the hustings. "Vote straight CBS News. Re-elect the most trusted man in America . . . Walter Cronkite." ABC modestly reported that Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner would tell what went on in the polling booth "and what's coming out." All three networks emphasized citizenship and the tireless highmindedness of electronic journalism. None mentioned the high-pricedness. This year the combined coverage cost some $10 million, roughly what the presidential candidates together spent on TV commercials-with about the same results. Adman Stanley Tannenbaum...
...favored by 44% of the voters who had made up their minds, while 31% were for the Conservatives, 25% for the New Democrats and others; but 11% remained undecided. By the end of the campaign, the undecideds had increased to 17% -and most of them chose in the polling booth to vote for the Tories...
...TASK BEFORE THE MOAKLEY people is enormous: they've got to persuade people who for years have walked into a voting booth and automatically pulled the Democratic lever that (a) there are other candidates on the ballot and (b) voting for an Independent is not a mortal sin. To do this, Moakley volunteers have canvassed the district and plan to be at every poll passing out information tomorrow...
Other things just don't work. The most glaring example is the entrance corridor. Almost vacant except for a few dying trees and some sofas on either side of the information booth, one is left with the distinct feeling that the entrance space was not designed but simply left over after the auditorium, studio, and library had been designed Toshiro Katayama's hangings, although bright, have become a hackneyed attempt at enlivening a dead space where perhaps student projects would be better exhibited...