Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LOOK UP AND LIVE (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). Adapted from S. Y. Agnon's short story Tehila, The Greatest Poet in Talpiot is a TV play about a character who remembers the past in an Israeli village...
...TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD SPECIAL (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). For a bit of musicalizing and a lot of laughs, Ernie gets together with Danny Thomas, The Dillards, Andy Griffith, Diana Ross and The Supremes...
...CBS NEWS HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The 1967 National Drivers Test," a repeat to see how much if at all U.S. drivers have improved since last...
...brief drama, shown recently on CBS evening news, has been replayed in a hundred variations since TV turned its cameras on the war. The principals may change, the settings may alter, but the essentials are always the same: destruction and death, horror and heroics in a brutal struggle against an unseen enemy of unknown character. The TV correspondents, stern faced and looking somehow too neat and clean-shaven, are omnipresent. But their words, imposed on scenes of stark and often shocking realism, seem superfluous. They say that U.S. casualties have risen 15% over a previous month, that the Army uses...
...State Department, officials commend TV for its taste in "the invasion of battlefield privacy," but deplore the penchant of correspondents for overplaying each skirmish as some kind of turning point. Only recently, in a rare turnabout, CBS characterized the battle of Loc Ninh as simply the recapturing of a town that was overrun by the enemy, while ABC more correctly described it as one of "the greatest American victories...