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Partly because jittery officials laid on heavy security guards that kept crowds from gathering, Syria's salute to its extinction seemed more subdued. But citizens voted heavily-twice as many cast ballots as in any previous election. They also voted publicly, and one NBC cameraman photographed the same voter marking four different ballots before stuffing them in the ballot box in a Damascus mosque. By official count, only 386 of more than 7,400,000 who voted in the two countries cast ballots against union. Only 452 said no to Nasser as the United Arab Republic's chief...
Though he no longer called camera shots or helped shift scenery as in the ebullient old days, Berle managed to make clear who was the star of the show. He squawked that the air conditioning in NBC's big Brooklyn studio was giving him laryngitis, edgily dressed down a news photographer: "You were taking pictures all during that scene, baby. You know this is a dress rehearsal." Once he stopped rehearsals because he kept hearing noises on the set. "I can't go on," he complained. "There's too much talking." Said a technician: "That...
...Under a complex NBC contract, Berle is guaranteed an average $60,000 a year for the next 23 years. All he must do in return is make half a dozen more guest appearances...
...beauty is encircled by whooping savages : the critics. Last week New York Philharmonic Wagon Master Leonard Bernstein, whose hide has been punctured by as many arrows as any, leveled his Winchester at a particular pesky redskin. Asked what he thought of music critics by Reporter Martin Agronsky on NBC-TV's Look Here show, Bernstein replied: "I have come to take them not very seriously any more. When you do get mad at a critic is when he is a self-advertised authority and at the same rime proceeds to display ignorance, making mistakes, showing he doesn...
Born. To Dave Garroway, 44, NBC's early-rising telecaster (Today), and Pamela Wilde Garroway, 30, brunette onetime TV production coordinator: a son, their first child, his second, her second; in Manhattan. Name: David Cunningham VIII. Weight...