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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1968
Page
8
NET presents a look behind the scenes at a crisis in France’s government and the role of a defeated premier. The program features Georges Simenon writing his novel The Premier and parallels to current politics. Michel Simanport plays the old Premier in dramatized scenes.
An official spokesman says ticketless travel costs the Indian Railways about 100 million rupees yearly in lost revenue while the system loses 34 million more rupees in the past year from accidents riots and theft compensation. The article notes the railways as a large state entity and mentions cobalt discovery in 1737 by George Brandt.
The Institute for Communication Research at Stanford conducts a continuing analysis of U S educational television with support from National Educational Television and the National Center for School and College Television. The 1968 survey, covering May 6 to May 12, expands to include closed circuit and ITFS facilities and will publish a winter report evaluating public and school television.
British TV premiere of Alfred Sutro's The Walls of Jericho on Channel 20's Festival NET Playhouse. Patrick Allen stars as Fighting Jack Frobisher with Diana Fairfax Barbara Cooper and Austin Trevor in key roles. Granada TV production directed by Howard Baker for National Educational Television.
Louis A. Potter named editor for NETs innovative Black Journal monthly, part of a 14‑member national staff producing the first nationwide series by for and about Black Americans. He previously worked on Color Us Black and Midsummer 1987 and has a background in TV news and civil rights reporting. The second program airs Wednesday at 9 p.m.
The ad pitches a Volkswagen Sedan with a 390 square inch sunroof for 1789 dollars. It highlights adjustable open or closed sunroof use, a steel padded top, and suggests the Moon option at the same price.
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