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...land between the rivers," was the gateway between East and West; it was marched over, fought over, civilized and reduced to ashes by a dozen different peoples. The treasures contained in the Iraq Museum's five spacious, well-lit and air-conditioned buildings therefore trace an unequaled pageant of man's patient attempts to build and rebuild that ephemeral thing called civilization...
MISS TEEN INTERNATIONAL PAGEANT (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Noel Harrison and Sally Field do the honors as contestants from nine nations vie for the title...
AMERICA'S JUNIOR MISS PAGEANT (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Fifty "ideal" high school seniors compete for a total of $45,000 in scholarships and the Junior Miss title, broadcast live from Mobile...
When its cameras and microphones are on hand to catch the unfolding drama of a major event, TV news re porting is at its best. From the pageant ry of a President's funeral to the suspense of a space-shot splashdown, the story is brought to the home screen with startling intimacy. The capabilities of the big eye seem virtually unlimited -and judging from the advance fanfare, the networks went all out to exploit those capabilities on last week's elections. But the cameras and the news casters muffed the story...
...predecessors are Treason, the drama of Benedict Arnold, and the non-historical Pageant of the Awkward Shadows, by Thomas Babe...