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...15th consecutive year, Comedian Bob Hope, 62, set off to give U.S. troops abroad some comic relief over the Christmas holidays, this time packing along Singer Anita Bryant, Professional Harpy Phyllis Diller. Go-Go Dancer Joey Heatherton, and the new Miss World, India's Reita Faria. While the plane refueled at Wake Island on the way to bases in the Philippines, Guam, Thailand and Viet Nam, Hope observed that Evangelist Billy Graham had just left Wake en route to Viet Nam and that New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman would be stopping over soon as he began...
Thursday, December 1 THE JACK BENNY HOUR (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). In a comedy special with Phyllis Diller, Trini Lopez and the Smothers Brothers, Jack fiddle-faddles away the time so hilariously that it's a shame TV doesn't see more...
...Fathers' Italian Association-the M.A.F.I.A." Another case in point is the rash of Polish jokes ("Why won't they let a Pole swim in Lake Michigan? Because he'll leave a ring"), which began almost underground but now venture into the light. Explains Comic Phyllis Diller: "If it's too close to the truth, it isn't funny. The Poles are far removed from ignorance and dirt, so it's all right...
Smiling Exit. In response to a diatribe against his Demonstration Cities bill from Texas Reporter Sarah McClendon-who, with her hair flying everywhere to Halloween, looked like Comedienne Phyllis Diller in a hurricane -Johnson good-humoredly assured her that while he did not concur with her "legal analysis" of the bill, he thanked her for the opportunity to defend "one of the most important pieces of legislation that we can act upon this session." Asked for his comment on some G.O.P. criticism that his Asian trip was timed to coincide with the elections-the kind of question that has sometimes...
...MILTON BERLE SHOW (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Pushing the network's own products, Berle includes among his guests Phyllis (The Pruitts of Southampton) Diller; Adam (Batman) West and Van (The Green Hornet) Williams...