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Huck Finn Tom Sawyer...
...LEGEND OF MARK TWAIN (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). David Wayne hosts and narrates this documentary featuring dramatized excerpts from Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court...
Readers of Cartoonist Roy Crane's comic strip "Buz Sawyer" were introduced back in 1966 to an outfit called the U.S. Navy Seals (for Sea, Air and Land), an elite bunch of commandos with which Buz performed deeds of derring-do in Viet Nam. It may have seemed like rousing fantasy to readers, but the fact was that just such an outfit was operating in Viet Nam-where its presence was one of the most closely kept secrets of the war.* Only now, in fact, when the Communists themselves have learned of the Seals' presence the hard...
...captured 60 while losing only six dead of their own and none at all to capture. The Navy officially admits only that the Seal teams are operating inside South Viet Nam. Nonetheless, there is reason to believe that Ho Chi Minh does not regard the adventures of Buz Sawyer-who helped destroy a SAM missile site in the North-as either fanciful or funny...
...towboat down the Mississippi, preparing herself for a visit to Mark Twain's hometown of Hannibal, Mo., by rereading his work. On the boat she ate Mississippi catfish and sang along with Bing Crosby's old banjoist. In Hannibal, she was met by youngsters costumed as Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher, plus virtually the whole town. The welcome was so hyper-American hearty that a White House aide wished Pollster Lou Harris were along, particularly when little girls at one gathering warbled...