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Actor-Director Orson Welles will do a mind-reading act, and Comedian Bill Cosby will play a fumble-thumbs straight man. But the star of NBC's Dec. 26 special will be Doug Henning, 28, Canadian-born escape artist, magician and current Broadway star of The Magic Show. For his debut as host of a live TV special (The World of Magic), Henning will attempt Houdini's famous water-torture escape trick, a piece of submerged wizardry last performed by the master himself in the 1920s. With hands manacled and feet padlocked in stocks, Henning will descend headfirst...
...between Guilty or Innocent: The Sheppard Murder Case (NBC) and Valentino (ABC). Trashy subject matter redeemed by the total sobriety-and professionalism-of its presentation...
...Barry Goldwater's Senate staff. Hoover's men ran name checks on 15 of them, producing derogatory information on two (a traffic violation on one and a love affair on another). Johnson asked for similar checks on at least seven journalists who had displeased him. They included NBC's David Brinkley, Columnist JOseph Kraft, Associated Press's Peter Arnett, the Chicago Daily News' Peter Lisagor and LIFE'S Richard Stolley (now managing editor of PEOPLE). L.B.J. also sought from the FBI, and duly received, information on critics of the Warren Commission's report...
...Trial by fire" was the way Actress Candice Bergen, 29, described her newest role, that of photojournalist on NBC's early morning Today Show. Starting in January, Bergen will appear once a week to display her photographs and provide accompanying commentary on subjects ranging from rodeos and aging to feminism and the Ku Klux Klan. "I don't call myself a seasoned journalist, but I've been taking pictures since I was 19," said Candy, a touch defiantly...
...violator, Pincus says; it was ironically pro-U.S. military. He attributes the bias to Zionist criticism of the Soviet Union. "You can let the ideology come out in your conclusion but you have to offer the reader the basic facts," says Pincus who is now a consultant to NBC news...