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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police, and-most shocking-of bugging Tito's own home. Within eight hours Ranković had resigned, and-while denying the eavesdropping charge-had admitted that he was "morally and politically" at fault. With Ranković went Secret Police Boss Svetislav Stefanović, 55, whose ubiquitous UDBA spy network had kept a tough, unrelenting grip on Yugoslavia since 1946. In one stroke, Tito had dismantled the entire upper echelon of his secret police-a move unparalleled in the Communist world since Khrushchev destroyed Soviet Top Cop Lavrenty Beria...
Petticoat Slip. Such pseudoscientific testing of off-the-sidewalk critics has a great and growing impact on network programming decisions. Actress Chris Noel was dropped from CBS's forthcoming comedy series Pistols and Petticoats, with the explanation that she "pretested" badly. Every time blonde and buxom Chris came on-camera during the screening, there was an inexplicable plunge in the graph line that records the composite reaction of the button pushers. Similarly, negative readings caused the jettisoning of an entire subplot from Pistols and Petticoats, and the replacement of ten other projected series performers. The previewers have even assumed...
...influence over TV-series casting' than the producers, more editing control than the directors, and more say on the story line than the writers. Considering the crucial nature of their decisions, the sidewalk critics ought to be paid at least as much as the creative geniuses of the network programming departments. Actually, they do their work for free. Their only satisfaction comes from knowing that they, with the programming professionals and the 1,200 Nielsen families whose TV sets are monitored by the ratings service (see following story), share responsibility for the uniformly poor quality of network TV series...
...JOHN GARY SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The musical-variety summer re placement shows are still pouring out of the network woodwork. Filling in for Dan ny Kaye, this one features - surprise -Danny as its first guest. Premiere...
...them most often." The living (so far) legend of the TV troops is a tough, wiry Vietnamese named Vo Huynh, 35, a native of Hanoi who came south a dozen years ago. He mans a camera for NBC while his brother handles the sound equipment. Since he joined the network in 1961, he has been in on every major battle. Coolly sucking on liquor-filled candy, he pokes his bullet-attracting camera into the action from all angles. "You can't stay in one place like a reporter," he points out. "If you stay in one place...