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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6 p.m.). The Le Mans 24-hour endurance race for sports cars, one of the season's longest, and sometimes its grimmest grind. Live from France by satellite...
...American attackers know no such frugality of fire. The APCs grind to a halt; there is a rumble from the rear; and volley after volley of 105-mm. shells whispers overhead to crash down among the enemy in an endless, earthshaking, invisible whiplash of steel. Then the U.S. warplanes arrive, diving just ahead of the APCs to rend the forest with their 20-mm. cannon and 2.75 rockets. The APCs move forward into the smoke, are stopped again by a pocket of fire. The U.S. commander barks into his radio. In response, five miles away a battery of huge...
...proud not only of the "sensibleness" but also of the consistency of Britain's China policy; he calls the French "Johnnies-come lately" to the idea of recognizing Peking. He believes the French view of the Vietnam situation is tainted by the fact that Paris has "old axes to grind" in that region.) If the war were to grow appreciably larger, dragging in China and placing severe strains on Russia, Lord Harlech believes the climate in Britain would quickly change from passive uneasiness to outspoken opposition. He does not, however, think such escalation is in the cards. China, Lord Harlech...
...Laws grind the poor," observed Oliver Goldsmith in the 18th century, and little has happened since then to alter that unhappy condition. To most impoverished Americans, the law's personification is a landlord brandishing an eviction notice, a creditor repossessing furniture, a social worker cutting off welfare payments. Nonetheless, argues Anti-Poverty Czar Sargent Shriver, the law can and should be made to protect the poor. To this end, Shriver, a Yale-educated lawyer, has been zealously promoting a pioneering program to expand legal aid to the needy...
Noxzema shows a man shaving while bump-and-grind music accompanies the disappearance of the beard and a girl's voice pants: "Take it off. Take it all off." Gordon Bushell, creative director at Esty, Maura Dausey, intended Noxzema viewers to "get the pleasant feeling of being in on a joke. We hope the audience will laugh along with us-and buy a can of Noxzema...