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MOST NEWSWORTHY NEWS SHOW: The MacNeil-Lehrer Report (PBS), which every night does what commercial broadcasting cannot, or perhaps will not, do-dives intelligently behind the headlines for reflective reporting on the day's major story...
...given added time, it is doubtful that the networks would adopt the one real innovation in television news, a half-hour each night confined to exploring one timely topic. This is the special achievement of public television's weeknightly MacNeil-Lehrer Report, now seen in some 200 cities. Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer are good questioners and have shown a flair for quickly rounding up two or three people qualified to speak on a subject in the headlines. Often their guests do not have big names or even prepossessing camera personalities-they are the kind of people you find...
Surprisingly Tart. In the circumstances, the on-camera people - excepting a resolutely benign BBC royalist named Frank Gillard - were surprisingly tart. Low-profile Anchor Man Robert MacNeil thought the toasts banal even by the dull standards pertaining to events of this sort; Cooking Expert Julia Child - her usual burbling self as she nibbled and chatted with White House Chef Henry Haller - let fly publicly at the undignified quality of the showfolks' contributions; and Upstairs, Downstairs' Jean Marsh took politely dim views of everything from American vegetables to the institution of monarchy. The PBS cameras, fighting through the longueurs...
Late last week, in the midst of an interview with TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil, Albert summoned a top aide, asked who had keys to the room, and ordered the lock changed. As for his own activities, Albert said: "Me? I haven't been to bed with a girl this year. I'm 68 years old." The following day, Albert had a statement delivered to newsmen announcing his "irreversible" decision to step down after 30 years in Congress and six as Speaker...
Appearing in a debate on "The Robert MacNeil Report," Lange cited the communists' "demonstrated ability to govern" in the five regional governments they control and their professed belief in democracy as reasons for his stand...