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NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE (CBS, noon to 3 p.m.). The San Francisco 49ers and the Detroit Lions in Detroit. And from 6 to 9 p.m., the Cleveland Browns v. the Dallas Cowboys in Dallas...
Wednesday, November 23 THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERTS (CBS...
...series. Solution: imitate successful formulas. After The Man from U.N.C.L.E. proved a hit, the television brains dreamed up The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., and presumably will follow next year with Son of the Man and the Girl from U.N.C.L.E. It all reached a ridiculous if predictable end last week when CBS and NBC an nounced their latest replacement series -Mr. Terrific and Captain Nice. Terrific is a Milquetoast gas-station attendant who takes a pill and becomes a sort of CIA Superman. Nice is a Milquetoast chemist who takes a potion and becomes a police-department Superman. The quest for originality...
...three networks installed elaborate computer systems programmed to digest early returns and forecast winners at the earliest possible moment. At CBS, the setup was VPA (Vote Profile Analysis). NBC offered EVA (Electronic Vote Analysis); ABC produced RSVP (Research Selected Vote Profile). Like wire-service leg men still dedicated to the old-fashioned proposition that beat ing the opposition by a matter of minutes is a major victory, each network was determined to be first to call the winners. Fragmentary returns from key precincts were fed into the computers; comparisons were made with past voting patterns; projections of the uncounted votes...
Doubtful Honors. But did they know? The predictions so confidently made were all too often wrong. Shortly after the polls closed in Maryland, CBS named Democrat George P. Mahoney the new Governor; hours later it became embarrassingly clear that the winner was Republican Spiro Agnew. ABC declared Thomas Lusk the winner in the New Mexico gubernatorial race; later the network had to retract when Lusk lost. NBC earned the doubtful honor of being first to announce that Democrat Lester Maddox had won the race for Governor of Georgia. After the other networks made the same mistake, a beaming Maddox...