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...autumnal, post-landslide truce between the Nixon Administration and the TV networks ended abruptly last week with a wintry blast from Indianapolis. Speaking before a local chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, Clay T. Whitehead, director of the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy (OTP), attacked the networks-particularly network news-with a harshness reminiscent of Vice President Agnew's florid denunciations of three years ago. Whitehead derided what he called the "ideological plugola" of TV newsmen who sell their own political views, and tartly dismissed "socalled professionals who confuse sensation with sense and who dispense elitist gossip...
...Says James Smith, a diesel mechanic who has sent four children to Holy Angels: "In public schools, the kids come home with their heads busted open from fighting, and they also have drug problems. I don't have to worry about that at Holy Angels." Adds Teacher Lucille Whitehead, who also has sent four children to the school: "Parents are more cooperative. In public schools, kids do whatever they feel like doing and many parents don't seem to care. At Holy Angels, they even call if their kids don't have homework...
Fourth Network. Clay Whitehead, policy director of Nixon's Office of Telecommunications Policy, warned public broadcasters against trying to become a fourth network. To put bite in those words, the President last June vetoed a bill that would have raised federal spending for public TV to $65 million this year and $90 million next year (compared with the current $35 million).* There would have to be, Nixon declared, a much more careful look at the direction public TV was taking. Discouraged, former CPB President John W. Macy resigned. Through presidential appointments, Nixon's men gained a majority...
...ramp of his chartered 727 wearing facial expression No. 1, a closemouthed, eye-twinkly look of expectation. Then, as he greeted the local Democratic leaders, he would go to expression No. 2, the Shriver grin-jutting out the lower jaw and squinting his left eye, for a conspiratorial Commander Whitehead effect. Sometimes he would shake the same hand two, three times, and once the shakee complained, "You already shook my hand back there," but Shriver didn't mind...
Born. To Zoe Caldwell, 38, Australian actress and two-time winner of Broadway's Tony Award (for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Slapstick Tragedy), and Robert Whitehead, 56, Broadway producer (Jean Brodie, Bus Stop): their second child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Charles Albert...