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NOVEMBER A Cambridge Crime Commission accuses Harvard Criminoligist William McCord of being the local Mafia leader. Atomic submarine the Nautilus is destroyed by an unknown assailant. A Radcliffe senior finds a pot of gold at rainbow's end and walks away from it. "I don't accept presents from a strange Man." The Brattle Theater purchases Radio City...
...first uncut feature film ever seen on TV, Oz brought the fairy-tale wanderings of a wide-eyed, 16-year-old Judy Garland into U.S. homes for the first time. The E. Y. Harburg-Harold Arlen score (Over the Rainbow, We're Off to See the Wizard) sounded as fresh and enchanting as ever. To kick off the movie, Buffoon Bert Lahr, who played the craven lion in the film, reminisced to Judy's ten-year-old daughter, Liza Minnelli, about the good old days at MGM. If the movie suffered in its new setting, it was mainly...
Some dealers, on the other hand, have made hard promotion pay off. By renting color sets at a loss ($1 a day including service) and buying multihued local TV commercials to hymn the "adventure into a rainbow," Chicago's huge Polk Bros, center has sold 1,600 color sets this year -more than any other one-city U.S. retailer. By contrast, another chain has been quietly showing color TV for six months in six Chicago stores, by last week had sold only two sets...
Virtually all manufacturers are trying to hasten TV's rainbow age with simpler set design and cheaper tubes that may pare as much as $100 from the cost of a color receiver. Bigger cuts will not be forthcoming until the industry can sell at least 1,000,000 sets a year, the point at which it expects to make a profit. For the record, the industry now expects to top that mark...
...Salt Lake City's Rainbow Randevu dance hall (serving as a political auditorium for the occasion), Nixon gripped the sides of his lectern to keep himself erect. Photographers edged forward, setting their cameras to picture the Vice President at his moment of collapse. Behind Nixon, Dr. Todd crouched anxiously a few feet away. But somehow Nixon made it. finishing the speech that he later described as "the toughest of my life...