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Another method of avoiding the effort and expense of a new series installment is to pre-empt it with a replay of what the networks like to call "holiday classics." On NBC, the most persistent ghost of Christmas past is Mr. Magoo portraying Scrooge, which was repeated last week for the sixth consecutive sea son. Other animated perennials are CBS's "A Charlie Brown Christmas," NBC's "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," CBS's "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," and a new NBC entry, "The Cricket on the Hearth." Of course, as happened last week...
...same time, says one friend, Brewster "holds a fundamental irreverence for anything stuffy, too old or established" -and delights close friends at dinner parties with his self-depreciating humor and talent for mimicry. Actually a loner who carefully guards his deepest feelings, Brewster is also gregarious enough to pre-empt center stage at bourbon-and-bull sessions with Yale's faculty and students. An ear-wearying public speaker whose official utterances are frequently pedantic and dull, Brewster shines wittily in small groups, admits that conversation rather than ivory-tower concentration provides most of his ideas. "I get more stimulation...
Some firms also figure that the rising federal deficit will force the Government to pre-empt borrowable funds later in the year. Indeed, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler admitted to Congress last week that falling corporate tax revenues and climbing Pentagon spending will push this year's deficit to $11 billion, or $1.3 billion more than the Administration forecast only four months ago. Fowler also predicted that the red ink might soar to an inflationary $24 billion in election year 1968 if war costs continue to escalate or if Congress fails to raise taxes. Accordingly, Fowler asked...
3.Disclose to him those Chinese vital interest which are allegedly more important than life itself, so as to pre-empt a position ahead of time and warn him it is not negotiable...
FOOTBALL (from noon on). Because New Year's Day falls on a Sunday-and also because the pros will pre-empt the tube for their championship game on Jan. 1-the colleges and networks have decided to split the bowl games, with some Dec. 31 and the rest on Jan. 2. Today's lineups...