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...transmitting tower had to be raised in the Truman backyard. Miles of wire were strung into and around the twelve-room, 89-year-old house, and a small army of CBS technicians scurried about in its hallways. Four TV cameras were rolled into the building. The principals were wired for sound. By that time the stage was set for an intimate and relaxed family visit that only a few tens of millions of people were expected to watch...
...apart." The magazines are as bad as the newspapers. Most of them are "dull and featureless." Even the overriding concern of the Russian press with serving the party line fails, says Kommunist. "Propaganda articles are as a rule devoted to the past," and filled with official statistics and statements strung together by writers who are "superficial dilettante journalists...
...Mortars started up again, but the Binh Xuyen fire was inaccurate. Nationalist reinforcements-a battalion of paratroops-moved expertly, strung out in single files along the boulevard, using the picturesque trees for cover. Scout cars zigzagged towards Binh Xuyen bunkers, slamming at them with 37-mm. cannon fire. Sirens howled. Telephones jangled. A baby wailed. A scout car was hit, its machine gunner twisted dead out of the hatch, and it came screaming back out of the battle in reverse. Yet for all the commotion and concussion, the young Vietnamese Nationalists were calm. Just as one terrorist shell exploded...
...social science, had an instantaneous love affair with TV. A veteran of the University of Chicago Round Table radio show, Finer, 57, a onetime welterweight at the University of London, has just done a series of twelve solo TV shows devoted to "Government and Human Nature." As high-strung as any star, Finer goes on the air fortified by repeated cups of coffee and doses of cough syrup, gives a vibrant performance (a fan describes him as "a real ancient George Gobel type"). After the show he needs a few hours to cool off and settle his nerves...
Born. To Judy (A Star Is Born) Garland, 32, high strung singing and dancing star of stage and screen, and Michael Sidney Luft, 38, her business agent: their second child, first son (Judy also has a daughter by her second husband, Director Vincente Minnelli); in Hollywood. Name: Joseph Wiley. Weight...