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Fears & Ambitions. The premiers' debate, carried live on TV for three days, was an unprecedented airing of national issues. The ten men argued out their aspirations for Canada and their fears and doubts over the planned reforms, as well as their rivalries, regional ambitions and cultural prejudices. Though pleased with the conciliatory mood of the other leaders, Quebec's Johnson still wants more autonomy and authority than his province now has. He would like to see federal power shrink and Quebec get more tax money, provincial control over publicly owned radio and TV stations and even the right...
...throughout last week's conference gave him another boost. Three announced candidates for the nomination-Finance Minister Mitchell Sharp, 56, External Affairs Secretary Paul Martin, 64, and Transport Minister Paul Hellyer, 44-took turns sitting on Pearson's left in order to get equal time before the TV cameras...
...Charles de Gaulle opened the 10th Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France, last week, ABC-TV pulled off a display of space-age electronic wizardry that was right out of Star Trek. The dour visage of le grand Charles picked up by the color cameras was fed to a control unit at the Olympic stadium, beamed to ABC headquarters in Grenoble, relayed by cable to Paris, and then to the French satellite ground station at Plumeur-Bodou. There the video signal was converted into a radio signal, bounced off the Early Bird satellite hovering 22,300 miles over the Atlantic...
Eagle-Eye Lens. The network bought the TV rights to the games in 1965 for $2,000,000 (up from $50,000 in 1960). Ever since then, ABC engineers have been skittering across the slopes of the Alps like spiders, spinning out a 40-mile web of cables. With the help of helicopters, snowcats and a detachment from the French army, they swaddled the 350-lb. color cameras in heated jackets and positioned them on rocky precipices as high as 7,400 feet...
...migrant farm worker. No Harvest for the Reaper is a chronicle of exploitation of Negro migrants on Long Island; Huelga!, a report on the 1965-67 Mexican grapepickers' strike in California. Both films contained remarkable and affecting footage, although they were more successful as polemics than TV journalism...