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...with the first editions of almost anything, the opening installments of NewsHour were ragged. Admitted Executive Producer Lester Crystal, a former president of NBC News, "There is a great deal of smoothing out to be done." Among the snags: "mini-documentaries" on organ transplants and on the decline of a Kansas City stockyard seemed more like unedited slices of life than stories with news pegs, and "video postcards" of nature scenes and Americana reinforced the show's occasional aura of untimeliness...
...very large and cantankerous world. Indeed, even as the park custodians were cleaning up the Mall after the march, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that in the previous twelve months world population climbed 82.1 million, the largest gain in the history of this weary globe. In the view of Lester Brown of Worldwatch Institute, which monitors global stress, population is the most awesome problem. Masses of people shouldering each other for food, space, wealth and dignity are at the root of most wars. Nothing was said about this down on the Mall...
...over the weekend, containing little force but plenty of leftover moisture, they brought the first sustained rains on Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska since the beginning of July. Any rain, however, was likely to be too late to save much of the harvest in the Midwest. In Dewitt County, Ill., Lester Thorpe went out into his fields of brown stalks and plowed under his 1,100 acres of corn last week. "There's not enough here for seed or to cover the cost of harvesting," he said with a sigh. "Best just to dig it up and forget...
What happened? Some economists suspect a statistical fluke. Says Lester Thurow of M.I.T.: "The drop is too big to be believable." Labor Department statisticians who prepared the report, however, think that if there was an error, it consisted of counting in July some reductions in unemployment that actually occurred in June-which would mean that the drop was less abrupt than it appears, but nonetheless real...
...film is stocked with sprightly gags-from the opening credit sequence, with its Rube Goldberg series of mishaps, to the evil Superman getting a wicked charge out of setting the leaning tower of Pisa aright. Director Richard Lester (A Hard Day's Night, Petulia) paces the jokes to his trademarked sprung rhythm and sees that they are deftly executed by his engaging cast. Vaughn may lack the top-dog malevolence needed for an archvillain, but he communicates the fun he had playing the role. O'Toole, whose cheerleader beauty has too often been camouflaged...