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...Burton Yale Pines...
...began a week ago Saturday. Police discovered the skeletal remains of two, or possibly three, men in an abandoned well in the woods near Blum, in north Texas. Arrested on suspicion of murder: Jerry Van Pendley and Henry Burton Merrill, a hermit and trapper. Then, on Monday morning, in a Dallas suburb, Truck Driver John Parrish, 46, after an argument with employers over $1,600 in wages, went on a rampage, fatally shooting six people and wounding four others at three places where he had worked. He was finally killed in a Shootout with police. A day later, Junett Bryant...
Clearly, the decisive influence on Soviet young people yearning for Western pop culture has been foreign broadcasting. When Willis Conover, who since 1954 has conducted the Voice of America's jazz program, went to Moscow last month with Musicians Chick Corea and Gary Burton, some 500 people jammed into an auditorium with 400 seats. Conover took the microphone and said, "Hello, I'm Willis . . ." He got no further. The young people erupted in cheers. They had grown up listening to that voice on the short wave. -By Patricia Blake. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof and Jane Tempest/Moscow
...reacted to the TV Guide report in a manner all but unprecedented in its history. News Division President Van Gordon Sauter launched an internal investigation to re-examine every step in the assembly of the documentary. To that task he assigned Burton Benjamin, a senior executive producer. After receiving Benjamin's report, Sauter last week wrote and released an eight-page memorandum, remarkable enough for being made public and unique for its candid admissions of error. Sauter said, "CBS News stands by this broadcast." But he then conceded that the news division had committed five substantial violations...
...shield Garry from sexual autograph hunters. A would-be ingenue (Kate Burton) pinions him and won't take goodbye for an answer. After a night of love, the manager's wife and the producer's mistress (Christine Lahti) hears the tintinnabulation of wedding bells...