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Sold by Old American Insurance Co. of Kansas City, Mo., the coverage is aimed at those Americans, especially elderly city dwellers, who increasingly fear for their safety. The ad, which opens with a menacing, silhouetted attacker, is in the form of a long letter from Old American President Joseph McGee Jr. It leaves no nightmare untouched as it warns readers of the dangers of "being mugged, pushed down a flight of stairs by a fleeing thief, or shoved off a curb by a roaming gang of toughs." At a cost of $12 a year, a policyholder injured in a crime...
Official Anger. Vogan's disclosures provoked a storm of official anger in the capital. Secretary of the Interior Rogers C.B. Morton proclaimed the shootings a "national outrage," and his department promised to prosecute the hunters. Agents dispatched to Wyoming by Senator Gale McGee, before whose committee Vogan testified, had also found evidence of "substantial, willful and deliberate slaughtering of eagles." Last week McGee's men found proof: a cache of about 60 eagles, badly decomposed and buried six feet deep under the remains of other animals...
...will replace an interim troika composed of himself, Brinkley and Frank McGee. NBC News President Reuven Frank insists that the change has nothing to do with ratings. (Since 1968, two years before Huntley left, CBS has had a small but respectable lead in the evening-news audience. The standings have not changed appreciably with the Chancellor-Brinkley-McGee format...
...account, Hugh Downs, host of the Today show, was indirectly the catalyst for the news shakeup. Downs wanted a break to relax, write and lecture. "We would have kept going under the old format for another year," says Frank, but Downs was adamant about quitting. "I coaxed Frank McGee," Frank admits. McGee takes over Today in October. Brinkley, meanwhile, will assume the job of "commentator" for NBC News. Next month David Brinkley's Journal will be seen as a separate segment of most of the nightly newscasts, NBC's riposte to Eric Sevareid at CBS and Howard...
That's roughly the jagged, frenetic feel of Dusty and Sweets McGee, a kaleidoscopic semidocumentary about the L.A. subculture. Writer-Director Floyd Mutrux has made a good small film about a large and imposing subject. Dusty and Sweets McGee is not even so much a movie about dope as it is about a lifestyle; it is a lamentation for part of a generation crazily enamored of slow narcotic suicide...