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...BRADY BUNCH (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Robert Reed, a widower with three sons, marries Florence Henderson, a widow with three daughters, and all eight live happily for the length of the series. Premiere...
...went on to fame in three wars, eventually becoming a five-star General of the Army. Now, five years after his death, West Point has honored Douglas MacArthur by erecting an 8-ft. bronze statue to his memory. Still looking sprightly despite her 70 years, Mrs. MacArthur took a widow's pleasure in traveling up to the Point for the dedication of the statue, as well as a new, six-story dormitory wing that will be known as MacArthur Barrack...
...Appalachian whites, as a symbolic seat of the conflict and began shooting last summer in a loose, almost documentary fashion-just as the convention confrontation was reaching a peak of frenzy. The uncomplicated plot turns on the developing love affair between a TV cameraman (Robert Forster) and an Appalachian widow (Verna Bloom), but gains meaning and resonance from the documentary footage surrounding it. The results of this apparently free-form exercise may puzzle some moviegoers and its political sympathies will outrage many more. But the basis of Medium Cool is more than solid enough to support as impassioned and impressive...
...involve the TV cameraman, be it an auto accident, an angry group of black militants, or the lingering hopelessness of ghetto life, he retreats behind the shopworn shield of journalistic objectivity, insisting that his only concern is to get the story. The progress of his love affair with the widow parallels the gradual weakening of his own prejudices and defenses, until both are finally trapped in the ultimate cataclysm of the convention's madness...
...bank's analysts handle more than 11,000 personal and institutional investment accounts, each of which usually must have a minimum of $200,000. Portfolio managers service the proverbially helpless richman's widow as well as the young business-school graduate who uses his M.B.A. training to turn the modest old family firm into a gold mine. Real estate experts on the bank's 1,200-man staff will advise on matters like buying a villa on the Mediterranean. The bank also lends money for many investments. Altogether, the company charges the usual brokerage commission plus advisory...