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Sneak It to 'Em. TV stations, expected by the FCC to give a certain amount of viewing time to public-service programming, usually relegate full-length religious shows to the somnolent Sunday-morning hours. A slick, quick spiritual ad, on the other hand, may well win an unsold prime-time minute. Now that Christmas commercials are out of the way and advertising budgets depleted, there may be more religious spots on the air than usual...
...program of tight political and economic control. Economic austerity worked wonders, but one politically repressive move followed another until Costa e Silva dissolved Congress and instituted rule by decree. Last August he suffered a paralytic stroke and was replaced by a military junta, which two months ago named General Emílio Garrastazú Médici as President...
...Keep those cards and letters comin', folks," drawled Dean Martin at the end of his NBC variety hour, " 'cause me and Jeannie just love to get 'em." Not any more. Jeanne Biegger Martin, 43, announced that she will sue for divorce, at her husband's request, after 20 years of marriage. Dino, it seems, is in love with another, much younger blonde. While half of Hollywood's Clairol set claimed to be next in line to share his mail, gossipists pointed to buxom Gail Renshaw, Miss World...
Later this season, when Dorothy and her friends again gather in Oz on their annual TV rerun, only the singing of Over the Rainbow will be more fondly familiar to Americans than the sight of the Cowardly Lion in his boxer's stance, hopefully spluttering "Put 'em up. Put 'em uuuup." Bert Lahr played the lion, of course, and like all his performances, it bore the mark of a unique talent. Most comedians rely principally on their tongues, and Lahr's scratchy voice, wobbly warble and gnong, gnong, gnong earned their share of laughs...
...flashier stripe-the fancy-Dan quarterback, the breakaway halfback. Not this year. In Tailback Steve Owens of Oklahoma, the Heisman electors tapped a man little given to subtlety afield. "Oh, he can fake people," says one of his coaches, "but more often he just splatters 'em...