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After that, ABC's Jim McKay, ordinarily an overeffusive sportscaster, managed a restrained, effective tone, and Peter Jennings, the network's Middle East correspondent-who had himself been held captive by Arab guerrillas for a few hours in May 1971 -provided valuable background information. Borrowing some lessons from old-style Chicago journalism, John Wilcox, a film producer for ABC Sports, donned a T shirt, U.S. track-team jacket and track shoes to sneak past the guards at Olympic Village and position himself in an apartment opposite Building 31. From his hidden vantage point, he radioed reports...
...Victor Jones, McKay Professor of Applied physics, resigned Wednesday as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences after a year of graduate school controversy concerning financial aid to teaching fellows...
...could have changed drastically by the time the film came out. It's really not a film about Vietnam, but certainly some of the things that got us into Vietnam. And the mention of Vietnam that's there is not insignificant, where what are serious subjects for McKay...are turned into a kind of a joke and kind of offensive and puts him off against the television people a little...
Packard's indictment is detailed in A Nation of Strangers (David McKay; $7.95), the seventh of Packard's commentaries on the American way of life. If the wide appeal of his earlier volumes*-and of Carole King's song-is any indication, Strangers, published this week, may well be another bestseller...
...Candidate is not about the Kennedys, though their resonances are present; nor McCarthy, though whole incidents are openly borrowed from Larner's own campaign experiences; nor about McGovern, though George's campaign seems to have followed the same route as Bill McKay's. Finally, the film's central figure is nowhere as serious as any of these men, and the film fails to engage us importantly because of this