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...award-winning TV movie That Certain Summer, a divorced father was forced to explain his homosexuality to his shocked son. In the same week, NBC's The Bold Ones dealt explicitly with a young girl who was torn between her old boy friend and her new-found lesbian lover. ABC's Lawyer Owen Marshall put a girl on the witness stand in order to clear her of a charge of lesbianism. "It may just be for rating purposes," says Welby Producer David O'Connell, "but many producers feel homosexuality is a facet of life-and we should...
...leadership, the army within nine months accomplished what the government, with a top-heavy bureaucracy and a casually corrupt police force and court system, had been unable to bring about in more than four years. Heady with victory, the army was obviously waiting for the chance to bring a new-found sense of morality to Uruguay's larger problems. It came last month, when a Montevideo paper documented charges of corruption against the city council. The army immediately joined the fray, demanding the aldermen be punished. When President Bordaberry fired his Defense Minister, who had supported the army...
Alsop has been privately irked by suggestions that his highly favorable columns on China signaled a new-found admiration for the Communist system. In a letter to the Washington Post, for example, John Kenneth Galbraith asked in mock wonder whether the "distinguished columnist, Mr. Chou En-alsop" was related to "Captain Joe Alsop," who for years had dismissed Chinese Communists as simply an "appendage" of the Soviet Union...
...National Renovation Movement, which was essentially a front for extortion. Funds would be collected from businessmen ostensibly to rebuild a slum or pave a road, but most of the money would end up in the pockets of Duvalier and his sly henchman. Soon Cambronne was flaunting his new-found wealth: he became an habitué of the most popular brothels and a high-stakes poker player. He also developed a fondness for expensive sharkskin suits, which he usually wore with welder-black sunglasses...
...wills between World Chess Champion Boris Spassky of the U.S.S.R. and Challenger Bobby Fischer of the U.S. took a subtle but significant turn in Reykjavík, Iceland, last week. Boris, rumored to be suffering from defeatism, professed a new-found determination: "The first half of this match was not very interesting for me. The second half will be." The usually difficult, demanding Bobby, on the other hand, seemed downright congenial. After taking a commanding lead in the match, Fischer at one point uncharacteristically consented to attend a cocktail party at the U.S. Information Agency in Reykjavík. Reports...