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NORAIR GHELIBOLIAN Caracas, Venezuela ^f For Painter Vanderlyn's 1815 shocker...
Delaware's watchdogging Senator John J. Williams had a shocker for his colleagues: Were they aware that "the United States Government is operating a race track, has employed as its general manager a nationally known racketeer"? Were they aware that the Government "is paying that former racketeer an annual salary of $35,000," placing him below only the President ($100,000) and the Chief Justice ($35,500) on the U.S. payroll...
Henceforth, said the board, there will be no kindergartens, no more junior-high or high-school basketball, football, debating, dramatics or choral singing. Janitor services will be reduced, and the high-school day will be cut. Whether meant as a shocker or not, the announcement brought a chorus of protests. Cried one angry father: "They've decided to get us where it hurts most, by making our kids suffer." But other citizens found reason to examine their consciences. Twice they had had the opportunity to pass an amendment that would give more than $1,000,000 to the schools...
This week one of Helffrich's more tactful decisions probably went unnoticed by the millions whose viewing was affected by it. Without any outside pressure, he eliminated 90 seconds from NBC's Medic (Mon. 9 p.m.). The shocker of a sequence was shot in a hospital operating room and showed a Caesarian section, including the incision and birth of the baby. "Pointless realism," said Helffrich, "that was calculated to horrify...
...Night My Number Came Up. A low-voltage shocker from Britain in which a nightmare comes true, with crackling good performances by Michael Redgrave and George Rose (TIME...