ISSUE DATE: September 8, 1975; Vol LXXXVI, No. 10

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COVER: CLORIS LEACHMAN as "PHYLLIS". TV's Fall Season.

TOP OF THE WEEK:
TELEVISION'S FALL SEASON: Move over Mary, Rhoda and Maude--television situation comedy has a new heiress apparent. Zany Cloris Leachman stars this season as "Phyllis," a spin-off of the kvetchy, not-quite-all-together landlady she played on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." Part guileful Venus's-flytrap, part vulnerably aging Barbie Doll, Phyllis is now a widow whose most marketable talent is "my uncanny knack for choosing just the right wine for dinner." Leachman's debut as television's freest of female spirits--one of 27 new shows this fall--coincides with the inauguration of the Family Hour, the networks' most-holds-barred period from 7 to 9 p.m. which was created to meet criticism of TV's high sex-and-violence content. As itis being implemented, however, the new policy is threatening to bowdlerize sophisticated video comedy and create a cops-and-robbers ghetto from 9to 11p.m. (Coverphotoby CBSPhoto--Tony Esparza.).

NSA'S ELECTRONIC EAVESDROPPERS: For years, one of the most secret operations in Washington has been the National Security Agency, an intelligence organization so hush-hush that even its charter is classified. Its mission is to protect national security by monitoring worldwide communications-and its technology is up to the job. Not only has the NSA monitored most of the telephone calls between the U.S. and abroad, but within the U.S. the NSA has scanned millions of printed messages that are relayed crosscountry on signals bounced between microwave towers (below). In theory, at least, NSA can eavesdrop on anyone.

BUSING UNDER CHALLENGE: As a new academic year begins, more than a million American children, white and black, will ride buses to school--in both voluntary and court-ordered efforts to increase integration. But busing is under fierce attack in cities around the nation and the new school year will test whether this concept--or the very idea of integration--can survive.

WITCHES' BREW: Thousands of wizards and witches and sorcerers--and quacks--met in Bogota, Colombia, last week to sell "perfume of the nest of the macna bird" and worship pre-Columhian devils during one of the most bizarre and ghostly conventions ever: the First World Congress of Sorcery.

JUVENILE INJUSTICE: Some youngsters are murderers and rapists. Some are truants and troublemakers at home. Often, the law treats them almost identically. The nation's juvenile-justice system is a confused maze of good intentions and bad results. And no one seems to know what to do about it.

NEWSWEEK LISTINGS:
NATIONAL AFFAIRS:
Ford marches right.
Conventions: the Big Apple gets it.
Lowering the Beame.
Intelligence: the NSA network.
A Mississippi maverick.
Enterprise: New Vietnam'.
INTERNATIONAL:
Mideast: the road to peace?.
A letter from Hussein.
Bloodless coup in Peru.
Portugal's new Premier.
Southern Africa: derailed.
Haile Selassie, 1891-1975.
Thieu in exile.
Witches: toil and trouble.
THE BICENTENNIAL: A new look at George III; The selling of George Washington.
ENTERTAINMENT: TV's fall season (the cover).
LIFEISTYLE: High society rag; Bar-stool psychiatrists.
SPORTS: Feet of clay.
BUSINESS AND FINANCE:
How much for a gallon?.
The Lockheed hearings.
The patent hustle.
Billion-dollar babies.
Postal rates going up.
Boom and bust: how Japan and.
many are coping.
Shake-out at Corning.
Galbraith strikes again.
IDEAS: A Federal master of ceremonies?.
JUSTICE: Children and the law.
MEDICINE: Magnetic brain surgery; Left hand, right hand; Another pill warning.
EDUCATION: Integration: testing time for busing.
THE COLUMNISTS:
My Turn: D. KeIth Mano.
Pete Axthelm.
Paul A. Samuelson.
Bill Moyers.

THE ARTS:
MUSIC: Bruce is loose.
BOOKS:
"The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train.
Through Asia," by Paul Theroux.
"The Nobility of Failure," by Ivan Morris.
Curtis Cate's life of George Sand.
"Hammett," by Joe Gores.
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