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During the hour-long kaffeeklatsch, the President sat on the arm of the living room couch, and at one point invited Diehl, who was chairman of Iowa Farmers for Carter in the 1976 campaign, to stop by the White House to talk some more. Carter also chatted with Mary Diehl about her hobby of collecting arrowheads, and accepted a big hug from her granddaughter Wendy, 11. For Woody Diehl, the occasion was "beautiful." Said he after Carter's departure: "He's a farmer. He understood exactly what we meant...
...hour-long serial, Washington: Behind Closed Doors, is a fine example: it was called fiction (which helps avoid libel suits), but since it was loosely "based" on a novel by John Ehrlichman, who went from the White House to the jailhouse, part of the fun was seeing how he got even with his Washington colleagues. At least Washington stuck fairly close to its characters' recognizable attributes, unlike most of the schlocky bestselling novels of recent years that trade on the public's understanding that they are really about Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Onassis or Howard Hughes The viciousness...
...whole series lives up to its protagonist. An MTM Enterprises production, it demonstrates just how satisfying American commercial television can be when producers know their subject and care about quality. The first hour-long episode tells a decent story, establishes the characters, raises some sophisticated issues about modern journalistic ethics and even gets in a few real laughs. Like its parent show, Lou Grant also portrays its newsroom setting with scrupulous accuracy. The Los Angeles Tribune, where Lou works, is a big-city paper-from its computerized typesetting consoles right down to the brusque security guards in the lobby...
They are the handicapped, brought from the obscurity of small, isolated institutions and private homes into the glare of Including Me, a television special being presented this week on 197 Public Broadcasting Service stations, plus a few commercial channels, all over the U.S. The hour-long program is an effort to publicize a new national law, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. It requires that handicapped children be given a free public education, as often as possible by "mainstreaming" them with normal children in regular classrooms. The legislation begins to go into effect this October, though schools will have...
...first interview she has granted to a foreign publication since her dramatic defeat six months ago. But she refused to answer any questions about specific cases before the courts and government commissions of inquiry on the ground that she might be held in contempt of court. Excerpts from the hour-long interview...