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Finch remains publicly optimistic, although there has been more open sniping at him and his department by White House staffers since the Knowles contretemps. Philosophical about his recent setbacks, he admits only that his "batting average has fallen off sharply." But he denies rumors that he will soon be leaving the Nixon team to run for the Senate in California. "This," he said of his job, "is a four-year commitment." Whether he will be able to keep that commitment and still serve his constituency is highly doubtful...
...mission of Apollo 11 and other historical ventures of exploration and discovery, there are also vast differences. When Columbus landed in the New World, he had a handful of bewildered Indians for an audience, and Queen Isabella did not get the news until six months afterward. In more recent times, the world did not learn of the arrival of Peary's lonely band at the North Pole in 1909 until five months after the event. Yet when-and if-the first astronaut sets foot on the moon, he will be observed by a worldwide audience numbering hundreds of millions...
JIMMY Stewart recently criticized Support Your Local Sheriff on the grounds that the movie had purposely set out to violate the western myth and "when the myth becomes legend I believe in printing the legend." The quote is a bastardization of a line delivered to Stewart in John ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and in its original context is a very bitter statement of an author (Ford) attempting to reevaluate his entire system of values. Stewart's recent use of the quote is not only far more common, it derives from a very dangerous assumption: that there...
...effect this idea has on filmmakers themselves. It seems to be often reflected by men who do not wish to do their own thinking, using the myth as a set of values too sacred to challenge. This attitude is evidenced by the appearance of True Grit, the most recent work of Henry Hathaway...
...issue of media control is much fogged over and highly debatable. In a different category are the cases, like the one Burger ruled on, where licenses are questioned for bias or inadequate ser vices to the community. Last month the commission canceled its recent li cense renewal for Manhattan's WPIXTV. The station, owned by the New York Daily News, was accused by disgruntled former employees of distorting news shows with doctored film-a charge that WPIX denies and the FCC has yet to investigate. In Los Angeles, KHN-TV has been under FCC investigation since 1966, after businessmen...