Word: tv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard will be one of the teams featured in a CBS-TV broadcast, "Football: 100 Years Old and Still Kicking." at 10 p.m. tonight...
...Seventies, unfortunately, owed something else to the movies; it was 2½ hours long. Even a bearded Paul Newman, doing the narration, couldn't still a restless TV soul after the first 90 minutes. Not that this sort of happening shouldn't be encouraged. It should -the nature of the '60s makes just such journalistic examinations not only intriguing but necessary...
Died. Diane Linkletter, 20, youngest of TV Star Art Linkletter's five children and herself a budding TV actress; after leaping from her sixth-floor apartment while on an LSD trip; in West Hollywood. Depressed by a series of minor problems, Diane began taking LSD six months ago, and her father could not persuade her to stop. "It wasn't suicide," said Linkletter, "because she wasn't herself. It was murder. She was murdered by the people who manufacture and sell...
...obviously afraid that the new dehydrated potato snacks could nibble into potato-chip markets and drive some of the small chip companies out of business. Dallas-based Frito-Lay, which claims to be the biggest chip maker in the U.S. and uses Comic Buddy Hackett to munch chips on TV commercials, sides with the institute. But Frito-Lay is hedging its bet by test-marketing Munchos, a potato snack that it carefully labels "potato crisps." Francis X. Rice, president of the institute, concedes that "synthetic" chips do have advantages. Pringle's, for example, have a longer shelf life...
Proud Lineage. Lester himself shows few signs of fatigue; in fact, he gets better with each film. The two Beatles movies and The Knack had a glossy, TV-commercial cleverness about them that made the chaotic brilliance of How I Won the War all the more surprising and gratifying. Last year's Petulia was one of the few successful American attempts to tell an adult love story, an unusually acute and sometimes vitriolic account of the way two lovers destroy each other. The Bed Sitting Room carries reminders of both the other films and of other styles. Indeed...