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HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). The Admirable Crichton. Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, the husband-and-wife team from the motion picture Born Free (1966), make their American TV debut in this adaptation of Sir James Barrie's 1902 comedy about a family of English aristocrats marooned with their servants on an island...
Since his reclassification, Krents has been on national TV and radio and newspapers...
...emergence of the Kennedy iconoclasts and the McCarthy moralists, of course, was probably not possible with-race riots, or a TV in every home. Still, the iconoclasts and moralists easily outnumber the Humphrey wing of the party. This faction seems to be composed, in large part, of older people who have grown comfortable and powerful with the FDR-HST-JFK-LBJ brand of liberalism: give a little to everybody at home and keep the Communists at bay abroad...
...explanation was ridiculous on the face of it; using a camera less does not make it weigh any less. Shortly after the decision was made, however, word began to circulate in Houston that the true reason for the TV black out was heated opposition from some of the astronauts themselves. The spacemen objected strongly to being seen on worldwide TV in the scraggly beards and rumpled underwear that would show when their helmets and space suits were off. More important, they bridled at the idea that TV would enable ground controllers literally to look over their shoulders during the mission...
After the real reason for the $20 million cancellation leaked out, NASA quietly rescinded its blackout order. Thus, during the first manned Apollo orbital flight-possibly late this summer-the U.S. will finally get its first live TV glimpse of astronauts in space...