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...both relieved and delighted that Correspondent Robert Anson has been released after 21 days as a captive of anti-government forces in Cambodia. Fifteen pounds lighter, thanks to the largely rice diet, but none the worse for wear, Anson arrived early last week in Phnom-Penh, where he was soon reunited with his wife Diane. From there, the couple flew to Saigon for a festive gathering with members of the Saigon bureau and Time-Life News Service Chief Murray Gart, who flew in from Europe via Tashkent. Gart arrived with champagne, a tin of caviar and a bottle of vodka...
...viewers, advising them that "there will be better and happier news some day-if we work at it." NBC provided for Huntley's ride into the sunset of his Montana resort by presenting him with a horse, and that offered David Brinkley a chance to close on a lighter note. "From now on, when somebody stops me in the street and says, 'Aren't you Chet Huntley?' " said Brinkley, "I'll say, 'No, ma'am, he's the one out West on a horse...
Most of the damage was in the Holyoke Center area, which was also hard hit in the April 15 riot. Saturday's incident, however, was far smaller, and damage was much lighter...
...Lighter Side. Literary lunacies abound. Under "Shakespeare and the Computers" is a revelation from an Enfield College of Technology scholar who used a computer to crack the cipher of the sonnets. Solution: Shakespeare was really Edward VI, who, contrary to popular belief, died at 125 instead of 16 after writing all of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon and Don Quixote...
...lighter side of literary scholarship gives A Certain World only a small part of its total impact. Auden has involved himself in a great variety of intellectual pursuits, from his boyhood mania for lead mining to his mature infatuation with opera. They are all charted on this mental map, though music is slighted because, as the poet points out, "nothing can be said about music, except when...