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...next scene: a tight closeup of Perkins lying wide-eyed and morose, staring at the ceiling. Ross raises herself on one elbow and consoles him with the hollow reassurance of a nurse returning doom-laden X rays. "Don't worry," she sighs, "it's not the most important thing in the world...
...Mariner 10 alive and performing well through its third -and closest-encounter with the solar system's innermost planet. As it passed only 200 miles above Mercury's scorched surface, the half-ton robot swooped over the planet's north polar region, sent back some 300 closeup pictures and confirmed a puzzling fact-that Mercury has an innate magnetic field
Close Look. The four-hour flyby was an unexpected bonus at the end of an already successful $100 million mission. Three months after its launch in November 1973, Mariner 10 passed Venus and took the first closeup pictures of the cloud-shrouded planet. Then slowed by Venusian gravity, it plunged toward the sun, approaching Mercury in March and again in September 1974. On those flybys, Mariner got the first close look at the planet and detected a weak magnetic field that some scientists thought might be caused by Mercury's interaction with the solar wind, a stream of charged...
Documentary programs are seldom profitable for the networks. ABC News Closeup, for instance, often appears without a sponsor, despite its respectable monthly audience of from 7 million to 20 million viewers. Yet ABC will pour $2.4 million into Closeup this year, largely for its prestige value. "Every time Closeup wins an award or gets a good review, our lobbyists in Washington run to every Congressman they can find with the clips," says a pragmatic ABC executive. "That's so the next time a Congressman starts screaming about sex and violence on TV, we can point out that they provide...
...first-rate journalism was waning. (CBS had aired / Love Lucy reruns instead of Senate committee hearings on Viet Nam.) If ABC executives want to avoid a similar embarrassment, they will have to continue, as Westin says, to put their money where their mouth is, asking those nasty questions on Closeup...