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CAPTAIN NICE (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). More of the same-only now it's a Milquetoast police-department chemist named Carter Nash (William Daniels), who turns into a superhuman crime fighter after drinking a secret formula. Premiere...
...Girl from U.N.C.L.E., and presumably will follow next year with Son of the Man and the Girl from U.N.C.L.E. It all reached a ridiculous if predictable end last week when CBS and NBC an nounced their latest replacement series -Mr. Terrific and Captain Nice. Terrific is a Milquetoast gas-station attendant who takes a pill and becomes a sort of CIA Superman. Nice is a Milquetoast chemist who takes a potion and becomes a police-department Superman. The quest for originality, in short, stops at the Nielsen lists, and fresh ideas are in as short supply as fresh talent...
...stronger Democratic candidate might have capitalized on Rockefeller's sagging state popularity. The governor has made mistakes: the unfortunate sales tax promise, appointment of some officials who proved corrupt, a milquetoast conservation policy, and an unsympathetic stance on New York City's revenue problem...
Deep down, even the most Milquetoast driver occasionally imagines himself a Juan Fangio or Jimmy Clark, shifting down for the Curva Grande at Monza or roaring onto the Mulsanne Straight at Le Mans. Few automakers play on this fancy so successfully as Milan's Alfa-Romeo. An ad for the sporty Giulia GT model, for instance, shows a father strapping on a crash helmet while his wife and child prepare to climb in. "The family car that wins races," proclaims the ad. Thanks to its fast cars and fanciful advertising, Alfa-Romeo is pulling ahead in the Italian auto...
...film, on the other hand, he is a milquetoast. He looks like a model from some fashion magazine--just as depressingly lifeless, unreal, and unlikeable. He is no more than a simple foil for Zorba. The film implies, apparently unintentionally, that this effeminate character is homosexual. Although the suggestion is later contradicted, it is unmistakable and confusing...