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Botswana's strongest asset is its first president, Sir Seretse Khama, 45, a burly, blueblooded Oxonian who has become one of Africa's staunchest advo cates of racial harmony. Eighteen years ago in London, Seretse cast away his paramount chieftainship of the powerful Bamangwato tribe to marry a blonde English clerk named Ruth Williams. The marriage embarrassed both Seretse's despotic uncle, Tribal Regent Tshekedi Khama, and the Labor government of Clement Attlee, which hustled Seretse into an exile that lasted eight years...
Thus, the pendulum has swung. Apart from some first-rate television journalism, the networks have been thoroughly overtaken by Hollywood, which, ironically, nearly went bankrupt when TV started. Last week ABC and CBS together agreed to pay $92 million for 110 movies from 20th Century-Fox, Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Top (and record) payout was ABC's $5,000,-000 for two showings in 1971 of the Burton-Taylor film Cleopatra. 20th Century-Fox, after fretting over the most costly ($31 million) production in movie history, can now thank TV for putting Cleo into the black...
...intellectually honest stand on the war can hope to capture the whole of an imprecise spectrum of discontent. Vietnam, for the moment, demands a degree of dishonesty from all congressional candidates who hope to be elected--either they must consciously de-emphasize an issue they know to be paramount, or they must adopt an inconsistent and therefore dishonest stand designed to please all comers...
...American soldiers are being killed in Viet Nam, many of our major cities are riot-torn, Britain's financial crisis is in its most crucial hour, and this country is faced with inflation and with crippling strikes. Although you may consider the marriage of Luci Johnson of paramount significance, I think I speak for the overwhelming majority of people who saw your story-who needs...
Such laws, including those touching on the press, are still surrounded by uncertainties. The right of the press to publish and the public to know any significant fact is taken to be paramount, and in the case of public figures, almost anything can be significant, right down to the exact state of a President's intestines. Those who voluntarily display themselves, including entertainers, are also presumed to have forfeited their right in some measure. In recent years entertainers have been loud in their pleas for privacy, including a Frank Sinatra, who will take a 20-year-old actress...