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...other show in NAFBRAT'S objectionable category seems to have been unfairly included. This is Broadside, which is condemned only because it is "devoid of depth." This makes little sense when set alongside NAFBRAT'S recommended category, which includes Ed Sullivan, My Favorite Martian, Lassie, Lawrence Welk, Kentucky Jones, Hollywood Palace and the Farmer's Daughter-all of which have a collective depth of just over 3/16th of an inch...
Mariner's mission is manifold. During its journey away from the sun, it will radio back information on radiation, magnetic fields and micrometeorites. If all goes perfectly, it is supposed to, transmit data on the density of the Martian atmosphere that could be invaluable to U.S. scientists who are hoping to land a capsule there by 1969. As a final dividend, it will also try to take 22 still pictures with a television camera during a 30-minute flyby some 8,600 miles from the red planet. The pictures will be transmitted to earth from 150 million miles...
This is the story of The Veldt, a new short play by Ray Bradbury which, with two other Bradbury one-acters, has just opened in Los Angeles. As the world's best science fiction writer, author of The Martian Chronicles and Hollywood's It Came From Outer Space, Bradbury has come to think that the world has actually entered the machine-dominated sci-fi era and that the human soul is already deep in an electronic coma. Hence his plays, though they are set in the future, are actually hyperbolic allegories of the present...
...Martian Byplay. Actually, the sidelights occasionally proved more memorable than the speeches or the commentary from the pundits: the Iowa delegation, for example, proudly waving stalks of New Jersey corn; Mahalia Jackson's off-Key version of The Star-Spangled Banner; Pennsylvania Nonagenarian Emma Guffey Miller and her peppery complaints about the hall's crowded aisles. And then there was ABC's great moment, after ABC Commentator Hubert H. Humphrey had. been nominated for Vice President, when Ed Morgan turned to Howard K. Smith to say, "Well, Howard, we may not be the top network...
...from Mars," as Cronkite calls the antennaed Rover Boys who puffed from delegate to delegate accompanied by cameramen carrying 25-to-54-lb. packs of electronic gear. The floor reporters actually prolonged and inflated the squabbles over seating the Southern delegations. NBC and ABC got caught focusing only on Martian byplay at the moment of Lyndon Johnson's nomination by acclamation...