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When NBC and CBS finally get around to starring women on their hard news shows, they will find competition already waiting for them. This fall 37-year-old Lisa Howard has become television's first and only woman with her own network news program. It is short (five minutes) and in housewives' time (2:55 p.m.), but it is all Lisa...
Pottery Mains. The Nabataean capital, Petra, is a museum of exceptional hydraulic engineering. Besides the Siq dam and diversion system, it has a spreading network of channels cut into the rock to lead water to the city from distant springs. In one detail the Nabataeans were even ahead of the Romans. Instead of high aqueducts, they used carefully sealed pottery pipes to carry water under pressure, as modern water systems use pipes of metal...
...largely unanticipated by-product of civil rights activity this year has been its creative impact on television news coverage. All three major networks have pioneered aspects of television journalism: more network energy was devoted to the March on Washington than to any single event in history; CBS presented a one-hour debate on the northern press and civil rights; and NBC devoted three hours of prime evening time to an exploration of what it called "American Revolution--1963." Finally, on Monday night ABC joined the race with the best entry so far--a unique, one-hour documentary appropriately named Crisis...
...first time since the scandals, a network ventured a return to the big money quiz, with contestants competing for $100,000 on an ABC show called 100 Grand. The master of cere monies behaved like an inquisitor, suggesting that nothing could possibly go wrong, honesty-wise. Something did go wrong. Nobody was watching. The show has already folded...
Jerry Lewis may not be. ABC has given him two full hours (The Jerry Lewis Show) to appear on the network -live and largely unrehearsed-each Saturday night. The show is loaded with intramural cracks, tedium, desperate-looking guests reaching for laughs, mechanical dolls that wave their arms and drop their pants, additional tedium, and the apparent illusion that several million people want to watch 120 minutes of the scriptless life of a semi-educated egocentric boor...