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Actress Mauban's show was produced by the French government's RTF (Radio-diffusion Télévision Français). In 39 quarter-hour episodes, titled Les Français Chez Vous (The French People in Your Home), the series uses mimes, comedians and chausonniers to act out idioms and grammatical structure. Actress Addams' show is the work of Hachette, the big Paris publisher that supplies every French schoolchild with books. Titled En France Comme Si Vous y Etiez (As If You Were in France), it guides the audience through 26 half-hour slices...
...pupils between the fourth and twelfth grades were enrolled in compulsory fitness classes. Every day the kids take 15 minutes of exercise; time spent changing clothes and taking showers does not count. After the quarter-hour of concentrated dashing, jumping, sitting up, pulling up and softball throwing, the students go back to class glowing with a sense of achievement. Says one 16-year-old: "We really did need this program. I mean, now we say to each other, 'How are you?' And the answer is 'Sore, but it's kinda...
Misalliance, by George Bernard Shaw. A happy tour de farce, written in 1910, in which G.B.S. changes his ideas every quarter-hour, and the ideas seem scarcely older, even after a half-century...
...That Woman Down There!" From 5 p.m. until 2 a.m.. Disk Jockey Kallinger alternates hot gospel platters, patent medicine commercials and high-decibel "evangelists," who pay station XERF $87.50 per quarter-hour. The preachers do not come personally to XERF; they tape their spiels in the U.S. and send them...
...Disaster. For the first time in the tensest quarter-hour of his life, Alan Shepard could afford to forget the intricate complex of rescue gear that had been guarding his path from Pad 5 to U.S.S. Lake Champlain. Few men in history have been watched over so cautiously. Long before he blasted off, Astronaut Shepard had become the focus of a vast deployment of equipment and personnel. Everything imaginable had been done to ensure his safety...