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Jealous of CBS's quiz ratings, Friendly enemies at rival networks have joined the test patterns. Last week NBC asked, "Is Anybody Honest?", then showed that more than a third of the country would lie, cheat and steal at the drop of the other fellow's wallet. ABC's forthcoming People Poll ("starring Garry Moore and You") will examine such profound questions as "Should the husband be the boss in the household?" (Yes, say 57% of a Gallup pre-poll), and "Is the husband boss in your household...
...opposition. Waiting until only a few hours before the G.O.P.'s Ev Dirksen and Gerry Ford were to take to TV with their "little State of the Union" message, Johnson summoned the White House press to witness a series of top-of-the-bill turns deftly calculated to steal front-page space from the Republicans...
...guarantee against tyranny. But in an age of mass communications and sophisticated means of sampling public opinion, annual or biennial elections are no longer necessary to determine the public will. The gentleman legislators of Jefferson's day could campaign at leisure between brief sessions; today's Congressmen have to steal time from heavy schedules in the capital to campaign strenuously in their districts...
...were any guide. But by appealing more and more to Italy's middle class, the Socialists hope that in the next general elections they can steal bourgeois strength from the Christian Democrats, while still preserving traditional links with the workers-who are becoming pretty bourgeois themselves...
...French understand these things, sighed Director (The Collector) William Wyler, 63, after filming How to Steal a Million Dollars in Paris. In Hollywood, explained Willie, those unromantic craft unions demand a 9-to-6 schedule, so the miserable starlets have to rise at a barbaric 6 a.m. for costumes and makeup, are too yawny to be spawny when they go before the cameras. "It's uncivilized to shoot a love scene at 9 in the morning. Everybody looks foolish," groused Willie, adding that while he'll still direct that Hollywood foolishness in the future, he will make more...