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JOHNNY CARSON'S REPERTORY COMPANY IN AN EVENING OF COMEDY (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). George C. Scott, Maureen Stapleton and Marian Mercer are formidable assets for even an NBC Prince of Players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Cinema, Books: Nov. 14, 1969 | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...issue cropped up, the result was the same. Voters within the Mojave Water District of California's San Bernardino County refused a proposed coal-burning power plant despite the increased taxes it would have contributed to the district. Reason: the plant might pollute the clear desert air. At Mercer Island in Lake Washington, a suburb of Seattle, residents faced another difficult choice. Did they want to preserve a wooded park? Or did they want to bulldoze the tall conifers to make way for a nine-hole community golf course? The voters of the community decided by a decisive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Government: What the Voters Want | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...their misdeeds are only a matter of gossip. The U.S. President, in particular, is well insulated against excessively prying eyes. Warren Harding employed the Secret Service to keep watch over his liaisons in the White House. Franklin Roosevelt's affair with his wife's social secretary, Lucy Mercer, was successfully kept out of print even though it almost broke up his marriage. Washington gossips amused themselves with stories about John Kennedy's attentiveness to pretty girls; yet no hint of scandal emerged to damage his career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: PUBLIC FIGURES AND THEIR PRIVATE LIVES | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

PROMISES, PROMISES is a musical to remember other musicals by. No playgoer will feel bilked if he attends the show, nor will he miss a thing if he skips it. Jerry Orbach as the self-abasing anti-hero and Marian Mercer as an amorous pickup turn in the best performances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Feb. 14, 1969 | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

PROMISES, PROMISES is an imitation of past successes, with a plot from the Wilder-Diamond film The Apartment and a structure borrowed from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Jerry Orbach and Marian Mercer turn in the best performances of the evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 17, 1969 | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

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