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Even the Muppets were affected by alterations. For the first time in their history, one is being canned for selling out. Kermit the Frog is being canned for commercialism. When Sesame Street was just a glint in Joan Cooney's eye, Kermit taped a special in Canada. When it was given a network airing, the frog was compromised. Or so Henson decided. Like Jim Thorpe, Kermit played for money, and now must relinquish his amateur standing. He is being phased out of the show. He will be replaced by such Muppets as Lecturer Herbert Birdsfoot and Sherlock Hemlock, a bumbling...
...GOLF CLASSIC (4-5 p.m.). The quarterfinals from Akron, with Kermit Zarley and Tommy Aaron v. Lee Elder and Bruce Crampton...
...GOLF CLASSIC (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). Julius Boros and Don January compete with Kermit Zarley and Tommy Aaron in this week's match from the Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio...
...early days of a new Administration, "the nation has a sense that a page in history has been turned, and the new President has a blank sheet upon which to write." So says Kermit Gordon, president of Washington's Brookings Institution, in Agenda for the Nation, a 620-page study released last week. In no field is this truer than in foreign affairs...
...season. Four days later, the Chicago Bears' breakaway halfback, Gale Sayers, hit similar trouble when he tried to turn the corner on an end run. He planted his right foot to cut downfield, and was hit from the side by San Francisco Cornerback Kermit Alexander. Sayers was carried off the field with three ruptured ligaments and a torn cartilage in his right knee. With him probably went the Bears' hopes of winning a divisional championship...