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...fund contains a meager $500,000; debts totaling $9.3 million remain unpaid from the 1968 campaign. There is Democratic money to be had, but there are too many candidates competing in an uncertain situation for any of the high rollers to empty their wallets this early. In his brief, six-week run for the nomination, Fred Harris had been able to raise only $160,000 when he quit because he was bankrupt. Birch Bayh, before he dropped out of contention when his wife became ill, reportedly received $150,000 from Milton Gilbert, former chief executive of the Gilbert Flexi...
...rest of this fall's PBS lineup includes a reprise of Lord Kenneth Clark's Civilisation and a continuation of the BBC's Masterpiece Theater. The opening Masterpiece production is a felicitous, six-week serialization of Jude the Obscure, which, except for the gloom-struck overview of Thomas Hardy, is a sort of high-class Peyton Place. The Lucy of public TV, Julia Child, is also back in a new 26-part series on French cuisine, "designed," she says, "as a refresher course for experienced cooks and as a jet-assist take-off for beginners...
...company's first nuclear facility, Indian Point No. 1, has been killing striped bass, perch and other species since 1963. According to the Hudson River Fishermen's Association, the nuke was directly responsible for the death of between 310,000 and 475,000 fish in a six-week period last year alone...
Repeat Defense. In the six-week retrial just ended, the gut issue was the claim of unconsciousness, despite new testimony for the prosecution that as Newton was being driven to the hospital for treatment, he waved a pistol and boasted of "shooting two dudes." Defense Attorney Charles R. Garry produced two doctors who testified that a man in a state of shock, as he could be from abdominal wounds, might not know what he was doing. Mrs. Henderson says she was swayed by this evidence...
Such divergence from the stereotyped passion often associated with Bizet's opera is characteristic of Choreographer John Cranko and his Stuttgart Ballet. Last week the company presented its new Carmen as part of a six-week stand in New York that will be followed by a road tour lasting until August. Cranko had sat through scores of Carmen operas, and he says "I always thought they were all wrong. If you see in Carmen nothing but a nymphomaniac who meets a tenor, seduces him, gets tired of him, then meets a bullfighter-it's a bore." Instead...