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...HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Host Gene Barry shares billing with international Troubadour Theo dore Bikel, Australian Singer Lana Cantrell and Comedians Jack E. Leonard and Mort Sahl...
Ackley and the Administration could take credit for part of the turnaround. Faced with unmistakable signs of recession, the Administration in the past months has shoveled funds into mort gages and freed money to speed federal construction programs. The Federal Reserve Board, meanwhile, cut the discount rate and has generally moved to make money easier. At the same time, a lag in domestic spending has almost been covered this year by an upswing in defense spending; in the first quarter $3 billion more was spent on military needs than had been anticipated. Altogether, said Ackley, fiscal and monetary policy...
Divorced. Burt Ward, 21, junior half of the "dynamic duo" as Batman's Robin; by Bonney Lou Ward, 20, daughter of TV Musical Director Mort Lindsey; on grounds of mental cruelty ("He compared me to other women"); after 18 months of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles...
Voracious Appetite. That is a question that programming Vice Presidents Len Goldberg (ABC), Mike Dann (CBS) and Mort Werner (NBC) ponder in the small hours of the night. Their major problem is that, in prime time alone, the three of them are responsible for filling 75 hours a week. "We do not suffer," Goldberg says, in the understatement of the minute, "from an overdose of good shows." That is because TV obviously suffers from a severe underdose of talent. There are just not enough good writers and performers to satisfy television's voracious appetite, so even the best entertainers...
Mike Dann at CBS was cool, Mort Werner at NBC was calm, and Leonard Goldberg at ABC was collected. The three executives, directors of programming at their respective networks, were braced for the first Nielsen ratings of the season. There was no reason for concern: their own glazed eyes could tell them that the new shows they had scheduled with great ballyhoo left some thing - entertainment, to be exact - to be desired...