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Next night Goldwater appeared on a half-hour, nationwide taped television program. Seeking to project the image of a responsible, reasonable candidate, he repeated his oft-heard plea to Washington to "mind its own business while we, as individuals, get on with minding our jobs and our businesses." At week's end Barry flew off to California for a round of rallies, including a $10-a-head "Cruise with Goldwater" to Catalina Island, 24 miles from Los Angeles...
...what made the surprise assault worse was its location: barely a half-hour's drive from Saigon, in an area filled with government troops. It was the closest attack yet to the South Vietnamese capital...
...Fall of the Roman Empire. Chopped into five or six half-hour parts, this movie could serve for that all but vanished art form, the Saturday afternoon serial. It might not top Tarzan of the Apes, but as a Child's Garden of Gibbon it obstreperously fills the bill. There are poisonings, chariot races, hairbreadth escapes, and slaughtered barbarians enough to satisfy the most bloodthirsty ten-year...
Misfires on the Floor. Mrs. Child now lives in Cambridge, Mass., and her TV program is taped in the display kitchen of a local electric company, where she puts in about 19 hours of preparation for each half-hour show. If she is going to flute a mushroom on the air, she has to flute one in rehearsal too. For dishes that take time, she cooks to various stages beforehand, so that she can compress an entire process of, say, four hours, into 30 minutes. By the end of a show about the preparation of one duck, for example, there...
Well, drama has been restored to Dunster House; but not altogether. For the first half-hour or so, the dull air of disaster hangs over the dinning-hall production of Sir George Etheredge's comedy "She Wou'd If She Cou'd" (circa 1688). Then the play--not quite picks up, but at least becomes familiar--and the American premiere of Sir George's farce alternately dances and stumbles to a happy ending...