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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thursday, November 24 40TH ANNUAL MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE (NBC, 10 a.m. to noon). Lome Greene and Betty White narrate this al fresco fiesta in honor of Santa's annual stand on Broadway and 34th Street...
...FANTASY HOUR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A special animated musical, "The Ballad of Smokey the Bear," marks the coming of age of the U.S. Forest Service's favorite fire-prevention symbol. Jimmy Cagney hosts the benevolent bruin's 21st birthday party...
...after the polls closed in Maryland, CBS named Democrat George P. Mahoney the new Governor; hours later it became embarrassingly clear that the winner was Republican Spiro Agnew. ABC declared Thomas Lusk the winner in the New Mexico gubernatorial race; later the network had to retract when Lusk lost. NBC earned the doubtful honor of being first to announce that Democrat Lester Maddox had won the race for Governor of Georgia. After the other networks made the same mistake, a beaming Maddox was encouraged to announce his plans over TV. Attempting to play down his segregationist past, he said...
...computers went awry, so did some of the newscasters assigned to analyze their output. NBC's Robert MacNeil, anxious to help fill in the empty minutes, dredged up the results of preelection polls to make a far-out analogy between California's New Leftists who voted for Reagan and the German Leftists of the 1930s who voted for Hitler on the theory that he would soon collapse. In a more jocular vein, MacNeil explained that Democrat George Mahoney had lost in his bid to become Maryland's Governor because such traditional Maryland Democratic voters as David Brinkley...
Several similar experiences convinced Opler that he'd better quit digging in the mud and find some connections. A few days after he discovered a family friend in the NBC hierarchy, Frank Music Affiliates discovered him and contracted for 26 of his songs...