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...spontaneity of a playground game with celebrities and characters. In fact, it is as meticulously planned as a semester at medical school. From Palmer's research department, program subjects flow to the production office, then get channeled to Head Writer Jeff Moss, a veteran of the Captain Kangaroo show. Three weeks before taping, Moss and his writers develop a script. Theoretically, their ideal viewer is poor and culturally deprived. Actually, the show catches the preschooler almost before his society does. Thus Sesame Street is as popular with the well-to-do as it is with the slum dweller. The kids...
...Captain Kangaroo (CBS): Now in his 16th season, the Captain (Bob Keeshan) has never set his sights above 3 ft. 5 in. Says he: "Most people are doing children's shows until something better comes along. I never had a desire to do programs for adults. Children are a very warm audience." Keeshan (formerly Clarabelle the Clown on Howdy Doody) uses the Walter Cronkite approach, addressing the camera directly. His Miltown mood indicates that if the sky were falling, it would be about as important as a broken crayon. The gentleness tends to reassure parents, but children are more often...
...Dead characters rise again as living hallucinations: his family, old priests, teachers, onetime loves, chance acquaintances, bygone neighbors, boyhood friends-even his boyhood self. Fergus had always justified all of his small sins for the capital gains of his novelistic art. This group of ghostly characters, convened like a kangaroo court, force him to weigh nothing less than the meaning of his life...
...Others contend that they contain merely a report by Rackley to the members of the New Haven chapter on the situation in New York, where 21 Panthers were being held on charges of conspiring to blow up department stores. The prosecution contends, however, that they are recordings of a "kangaroo trial" given Rackley by the Panthers, a "trial" in which he was condemned to death...
...oddly unconcerned about their wildlife. In the 1930s, government machine-gunners cut down 20,000 ostrichlike emus in a single sweep. Thousands of rare giant green sea turtles have also lately been killed for their oil, a prime ingredient of some skin creams. What Australians are doing to the kangaroo, the country's unofficial symbol, was recently summed up by an outback sheep farmer who bragged: "On my spread, we've shot 20,000 'roos in the last four years and there's still lots left." Also vanishing, at least in wild areas: the koala "Teddy...