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...Schuster, $18.95), published the month On Golden Pond was released, has had 31 weeks on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list (No. 1 for 21 weeks). The book has become the focus for a baby conglomerate that mints money by marketing Fonda's exercise ideology. A 90-min. video cassette showing Fonda and the workout instructors performing the regimen retails for $59.95; a two-record album of mellow-rock exercises has made the Top 40; her Workout studios are now in Beverly Hills, Encino and San Francisco and will be opening up in other large cities...
...four nights a week, and from 2 to 3 a.m. on Friday, and a morning program preceding Today, from 6:30 to 7 a.m., and using Today's personnel. ABC countered with a 6-to-7-a.m. headline news show in repeating 15-min. cycles. Says NBC News President
...Westinghouse Group W, the country's largest non-network station group, have joined to offer their own 24-hour cable news headline service, Satellite News Channels, which started airing June 21. To date, however, SNC is less varied and ambitious than CNN. It offers three 18-min. newscasts an hour, plus 'quick regional news bulletins. SNC, like CNN2, is intended for brief sampling rather than the extended viewing sought by CNN; the new service is explicitly patterned after similarly repetitive all-news radio stations. SNC's ABC footage is limited to stories that do not feature network...
London's strangest drama of the summer season continued in the Bow Street Magistrates' Court last week. Michael Fagan, 33, the unemployed laborer who had stunned Britain by wandering into Queen Elizabeth's bedroom three weeks ago, was brought into court for a bizarre 17-min. bail hearing. (Bail was denied.) At the same time, a Scotland Yard investigation of the affair revealed just how somnolent the Queen's protection had been during Fagan's peregrination through Buckingham Palace...
...extensive royal stamp collection is displayed. That set off an alarm, but it was ignored. Fagan went back out the same window, shinnied up a drainpipe, removed his sandals and socks, and climbed to another window, which had just been unlocked by a maid. For the next 15 min. or so, reported Dellow, "he moved through the corridors of the palace unchallenged. One member of the palace domestic staff remembers seeing him, but his behavior was not sufficiently suspicious to cause her to raise the alarm." He also slipped through warning devices that had been improperly adjusted and finally, Fagan...