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...seen she is. Julia Child, 54, is the 6-ft.-2-in.-tall star of the Emmy-winning half-hour program, The French Chef. Her viewers on 104 educational TV stations across the U.S. watch her every move, forgive her every gaffe and, in a word, adore her. Manhattan matrons refuse to dine out the night she is on. When Washington, D.C.'s WETA interrupted her program to carry Lyndon Johnson live, the station's switchboard was jammed for an hour. Miami's WTHS-TV ran through 117 of her 134 taped shows (the earliest tapes have...
...late President, Jamie has been painting from photographs and movies, and has made several trips to Washington from Chadds Ford, Pa., in order to sketch Senator Ted Kennedy, "because friends told me he looks like his brother. It's much better working from life," said Jamie. "A half-hour with the man would be worth all the pictures...
...Half-Hour Steal. With an insouciance that curdles the imagination, the producers shoved them in front of the cameras, and in five days filmed a genial half-hour steal of the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night, only they called it The Monkees. "We wanted to keep them natural, as unrehearsed as possible, and give them plenty of room for ad-libbing," says Rafelson. "It all went great: NBC bought the series 24 hours after it saw the pilot and sold it to two sponsors 72 hours later...
...jury of eight men and four women deliberated for only a half-hour before returning a verdict. The entire trial took only 90 minutes and only one witness, Mrs. Helen M. Beatty, clerk of the Milton-Randolph (Mass.) Local Board was called. Reed, who withdrew from Harvard last winter and is a member of the New England Committee for Non-Violent Action, conducted his own defense...
...more time, money and ingenuity than ever into their news programs. Both CBS and NBC now allot about one-quarter of their programming to news and public affairs, ABC somewhat less. The Cronkite and Huntley-Brinkley reports, which used to run for only 15 minutes, were increased to a half-hour in 1963; and ABC's Peter Jennings with the News will go to a half-hour this January. Together, the three networks will spend $148 million on news this year-their budgets have been boosted 200% from five years before...