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...officials believe the Soviets could even return to the nuclear bargaining table within a few months. Moscow has a military interest in curtailing the NATO deployment, which is sched uled to proceed gradually over the next five years. There is also the importance to the Soviets of continuing to portray themselves as peacemakers in their ongoing bid to split the NATO allies...
...superpower showdown. Former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, 69, is cast as the U.S. President. (Muskie will have to watch the program from a hospital bed; he suffered a heart attack at his home in Maine last week.) Former Defense Secretaries James Schlesinger, 54, and Clark Clifford, 76, portray the Secretaries of Defense and State respectively. The result, says former Assistant Secretary of State Hodding Carter III, who plays a senior adviser on the program, "will be as close to reality as anything but real events themselves." For most viewers, that should be plenty close enough...
...with good reason. Last week P&G launched Citrus Hill, its entry into the $3 billion market for chilled and frozen orange juice. "There's a year of sunshine in every sip," goes the slogan for the ads that blossomed on TV and in newspapers. The commercials portray a citrus grower who says, "That is one sunshiny, sweet-tastin' orange juice." Cost of the national blitz: an estimated $100 million...
...First Affair," a two-hour made-for-television movie which aired on CBS chose Harvard as the setting to portray a Nebraska student's freshman year, which actress Melissa Sue Anderson spends comping for The Crimson and having an affair with the spouse of a writing professor played by Loretta Swit...
...this month with the release of the movie The Right Stuff, based on Tom Wolfe's bestselling book about the space program. To capitalize on the film's heroic depiction of Glenn as a young man, his aides are trying to give him a heroic political cast, portraying him as a natural leader, a committed Democrat and a candidate with vision. In the process, the Glenn camp has drawn sharp contrasts with what it views as Mondale's beholden and outdated liberalism. Says Glenn pointedly: "To govern is to choose, and to choose is to occasionally...