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Savings plus stability lead to an economic takeoff point, as several countries, including Spain and Mexico, have recently demonstrated. Benefiting from a Japanese-built infrastructure, Chinese management and U.S. aid of $1.5 billion, Taiwan has established a promising capital base. By rapidly spreading a network of banks, Thailand has increased savings deposits twenty-five-fold since 1958. Meanwhile, Colombia, Chile, The Netherlands and other countries are considering various plans to increase capital through enforced savings by issuing bonds in place of promised wage increases or tax reductions...
JESSE OWENS RETURNS TO BERLIN (Sports Network). Recollection of the dramatic 1936 Olympics and its sullen host Hitler, as U.S. Negro Trackman Owens wins four gold medals...
President Nguyen Van Thieu rode through the hastily cleared streets of Saigon last week in his black Mer cedes and pulled to a halt inside the barbed-wire compound that Viet Nam's national television station shares with the U.S. Armed Forces network stu dios. Inside, he settled himself behind a green-cloth-covered table, permitted a makeup man to powder his high forehead, but refused to straighten his loosely knotted tie. "It will look more nat ural," he said. Then the cameras rolled and the President of South Viet Nam delivered his first major policy address...
...student who mistakenly stumbled into U.C.L.A.'s Haines Hall might have thought that he was listening to a class in Double-Dealing and Back-Knifing 1. The university catalogue calls the course Network Television: The Facts of Life (Theater Arts XL 198A), but its professor, William Dozier, calls it The Jungle. This appraisal, he tells his class, is "not a pessimistic view but a realistic one. It is a jungle. Compared with television, Khe Sanh is the fairway of the Bel Air Country Club...
...name guest lecturers whose castigations and confessions are reminiscent of scenes from Nurnberg or a Moscow purge. Screen Gems' Harry Ackerman, one of TV's hottest hit makers (Dennis the Menace, Bewitched, The Flying Nun), conceded that the only hope for quality programming is a fourth network, run by Washington. Another visiting professor, Lee Rich, TV vice president of the Leo Burnett ad agency, said that there is nothing original or worth watching on the air. He blamed the industry primarily, but thought the government could do more. "The FCC should be taken out and machine-gunned...