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According to one survey, the five most popular children's shows in 1951 were Crusader Rabbit, Hopalong Cassidy, Wild Bill Hickok, Howdy Doody and Uncle Mistletoe. Last year's top five: Man from U.N.C.L.E., Bewitched, Time Tunnel, Lost in Space and The Green Hornet. The shift is not only a reflection on the state of children's TV but on the industry as a whole. As Child Psychologist Hilde Himmelweit, author of Television and the Child, says: "It seems to me a devastating indictment that while ten-year-olds still pick up some knowledge from television...
...General Westmoreland's phrase, there was "light at the end of the tunnel" a few weeks ago, recent events have made the path to peace as tortuous as ever. The State Department's leading exponent of a "hard line" in Asia. Assistant Secretary William P. Bundy, said Hanoi's firm offer was little more than a dangerous propaganda device full of bad intentions. Bundy seemed to feel that Trinh's statement was like an LSD sugar cube--if we grabbed at it, we might blow our cool for good. Bundy's less outspoken boss, Dean Rusk, was not as upset...
...color coding. On their arrival for the opening hockey game between the Kings and the Philadelphia Flyers, fans holding yellow tickets, for example, found that they parked their cars in a yellow-designated lot. They entered the arena at a yellow gate and passed through a yellow tunnel to the yellow section, where girls wearing yellow mini-togas showed them to their seats-yellow, of course...
...Plastic tunnels. To guard against moon viruses and bacteria, NASA will not allow the astronauts to open the Apollo hatch until a plastic tunnel has been extended to the spacecraft from a 35-ft., hermetically sealed van placed near by on the carrier deck. Carrying 50 Ibs. of lunar rock and soil samples in steel vacuum cases, they will walk through the tunnel into the van. There, in the company of a doctor and an engineer, they will be completely isolated from the outside world. When the carrier reaches a U.S. port, the van will be flown intact...
...perils of this work were recently exemplified by the dilemma that faced California Sociologist Lewis Yablonsky, whose books on teen-age gang life in New York (The Violent Gang) and the Synanon cure for drug addiction (Synanon: The Tunnel Back) have been widely praised for telling it like it is. Yablonsky could tell it, because he lived with the people he studied-and his classroom presentation at San Fernando Valley State College this month earned him an "outstanding teacher" award over 9,000 of his colleagues in the California state colleges. Shortly before he won the award, however, Yablonsky...