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TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Peter Sellers, David Niven, Capucine and Robert Wagner pussyfoot along with The Pink Panther...
Book reviews of the Sears, Roebuck 1897 catalogue, results of a Japanese pingpong tournament and 16 thundering hours of Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung are not normal radio pro gramming. But then, California's non profit Pacifica Foundation, which operates FM radio stations in three...
...Wagner's latter years in office were dreary and ineffectual, and he invited -by continued public borrowing and eva sion of problems - many of the troubles that beset Lindsay. But Lindsay's own record is now tarnished, and at the press conference announcing his candidacy, Wagner was in confident good humor. He proclaimed no bold new programs-of course. Instead, the soothing voice intoned: "I do not pretend or believe that I can solve all the problems of New York City." But he made it clear that he thought he could do a better job than Lindsay, whom...
Narrowing the List. Wagner's entrance into the race is expected to add stability to the Democratic contest by inducing at least two of the seven other announced mayoral candidates to drop out in his favor. Wagner will have to face his rivals in the June 17 Democratic primary. His chances are no worse than those of Lindsay in the G.O.P. primary, where two conservative Republicans are challenging the mayor. Wagner presents a threat to Lindsay's renomination by the Liberal Party, which provided Lindsay's margin of victory last time. The Liberals have backed Wagner...
...would Wagner leave his prosperous law practice for another shot at a man-killing job? Some cynics suggest he is really angling for the Senate nomination next year; he has always hankered for his late father's seat on Capitol Hill. Perhaps, like many career politicians, he cannot abide private life. Or perhaps he wants to protect his party from the candidacy of Novelist Norman Mailer, who has been threatening to seek the nomination with Jimmy Breslin, journalist, author and character-about-town, as his running mate for city council president...