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KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). "Comedy 2001?Give or Take a Couple of Weeks." Julie Harris, Bill Dana, Shelley Berman and Lynn Kellogg join Host Steve Allen in a series of skittery sketches about the lighter side of life in the 21st century...
...some were arguing Tuesday that the Faculty has not yet settled the problem of making Harvard a more attractive place for young scholars--that in addition to higher pay and a more prestigous title, junior faculty need a lighter teaching load, better research facilities, and more of a voice in the governance of the University...
...years as a successful movie actor. He has gone further than merely not casting himself in his first try at directing; he has cast no one remotely like himself--no slick stars--and given his actors no slick dialogue. With a little more humor and a lighter touch all around, Newman could become a really good direcor, though maybe not to the point of contributing more to a picture as director than actor. So it might in any case not be worth the effort...
...three days and three nights, through intermittent downpours, the musicians held the first Sky River Rock Festival and Lighter than Air Fair. The music was incessant, loud, wild and swinging-folk rock, just plain folk, acid rock, cool jazz, blues, country and Western. There were tents pitched in Betty's muddy meadow, but nobody did much sleeping. The first night, everybody stayed up listening to the music until 2:30 a.m., then watched a psychedelic light show and underground movies. The next night, they never went to bed at all. With the morning came a "Sun Dance." The musicians...
...lighter stories about the business community, the Wall Street Journal gently chided those executives who take off for long weekends early Friday afternoon and leave instructions with secretaries to cover up for them. "The empty executive suites irk a lot of people," reported the paper. "An increasing number of businessmen are complaining that so many executives disappear on Friday afternoons that it is impossible to conduct any business...