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...turned-on TV sets-or some 75 million Americans. Reagan spent $75,000 for an opening-night 60-sec. spot. Carter appeared twice later in the week, spending $112,500 on one 60-sec. and one 30-sec. pitch. He may have come out ahead in this scheduling duel since, unlike those of many serial shows, the Shōgun audience grew in later episodes...
...status as a major candidate, and the continuing controversy helped keep him in the news. Conferring credibility is television's greatest power: "Televiso, ergo sum-I am televised, therefore I am," as Columnist Russell Baker puts it. CBS has already committed itself to covering the Anderson-Reagan duel live; NBC and ABC were still making up their minds at week...
...mind to preclude further debates." But Powell said last week: "There's a growing feeling around here that there may never be a one-on-one debate." The White House believes that Reagan, despite his claims to the contrary, does not want to duel the President. If there is no debate between Carter and Reagan this year, the voters will be deprived of the opportunity of sizing up the two men, head to head, as they project their personalities and discuss their programs...
Hostilities continued for three more days as Israel and P.L.O. forces engaged in a prolonged artillery-vs. -aircraft duel. From its southern Lebanon positions, the P.L.O. fired a series of its Soviet-made Katyusha rockets onto an Israeli settlement in the Galilee panhandle. In response, Israeli planes launched another series of bombing runs against P.L.O. bases in Lebanon...
Steven Spielberg, child and master of the movie machine, is another film maker who shows an itch to play Silly Putty with finished work. His first TV feature, Duel, was released in a longer version for theaters in Europe. Last year when ABC aired Jaws, Spielberg added a few scenes cut from the original print. Now he has reworked Close Encounters, deleting 25 minutes from the original print and incorporating 20 minutes of outtakes and new footage. The result: the "new" Close Encounters is different-and the same...