Word: pbs
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...Alastair Cooke's America." The Ivy Group, the official organization representing Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, Brown, and II, Penn, agreed, and thus was born the Public Broad casting Service's "Ivy Game of the Week." The first season saw the games air over twelve stations, including PBS powerhouses like Boston's WGBH, New York's, WNFE, and Pittsburgh's WOFD...
...public addresses; last year she gave 14 antidrug speeches, double the number of the year before. The First Lady played herself on an episode of the situation comedy Diff'rent Strokes, was co-host of the two-hour talk show Good Morning America and narrated an antidrug documentary for PBS, The Chemical People. She is about to announce an unusual high-profile variation on the theme, inviting the spouses of two dozen heads of state to the U.S. for a three-day antidrug forum in Washington and Atlanta...
CONCEALED ENEMIES (PBS). Alger Hiss, the alleged spy; Whittaker Chambers, his accuser; and Congressman Richard Nixon, the investigator. These were the true- life protagonists of the year's most intriguing mystery story, deftly dramatized in an American Playhouse miniseries...
JEWEL IN THE CROWN (PBS). With understated urgency, this 14-week series (which runs until March) sketched a sovereign vision of the long, sad twilight of the British raj in India...
Though not the cult figure he was during the 1950s and '60s, Merton still commands a following. Forty of his books are in print. Paulist Press is offering a videotape in which Michael Moriarty portrays the monk. Last June PBS televised a biography, and the film is still enjoying brisk sales and rentals. The show's producers have now recycled 20 of their interviews as Merton by Those Who Knew Him Best (Harper & Row; 191 pages; $12.95), a slight but engaging book...