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Carter had definitely staged a comeback since his summer of discontent. The turnaround was perhaps not quite so dramatic as the White House thought, but nonetheless was substantial enough. The President had reversed his standing in an Associated Press-NBC poll, which two months ago showed that only 38% of the public wanted him to run for re-election and that half the people did not want him even to try. A similar survey last week indicated that 50% of the public think he should run again and only 38% are opposed. Explains Investment Banker Nimrod Frazer, a Democratic fund...
Summer of My German Soldier (Oct. 30, NBC, 9 p.m. E.D.T.). Television's most gifted young actress, Kristy McNichol of Family, is sadly wasted in this glossy but dim-witted adaptation of a favorite junior high school book. Summer is ostensibly about a small-town Jewish girl in Georgia who falls in love with a German P.O.W. (Bruce Davison) during World War II. For reasons that are not clear, Writer Jane-Howard Hammerstein short changes the love story to dwell on the her oine's father (Michael Constantine), a surly merchant with unexplained psychotic tendencies. McNichol and Davison...
Last week the cover was suddenly blown off Shevchenko's pot-of-gold existence. Judy Chavez, 22, told NBC-TV that the Ukrainian was paying her $5,000 a month for her favors, had given her $14,000 for a Corvette sports car and taken her on a whirlwind vacation in the Virgin Islands. In all, claimed the kiss-and-tell brunette, she had received between $35,000 and $40,000, which Shevchenko had been given by "a high official in the CIA." Later, at a Manhattan press conference, she added that Shevchenko had paid her in sequentially numbered...
...Patricia Lynch, a producer for NBC, filmed a report on Synanon activities that was aired last June. Later, she says, two men with close-cropped hair and carrying tape recorders and cameras turned up at her Manhattan apartment building, asking tenants about her habits and the layout of her apartment. Since then, she has been shadowed by two men with shaved heads who told her they were from the Synanon Committee for Responsible American Media (SCRAM). She quotes one of them as saying: "The goal of SCRAM is to get your life...
...probable excerpt from some little kid's letter to NBC...