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Th 8 Sunday, March 7, 1965 Nine Air Douglas, Boeing Competition The intensive competitive battle between two major aircraft companies, Douglas and Boeing, will be the subject of a half-hour radio report at 10:30 p.m. today (Sunday) on station KFWB (980). The intensity of the competition exists in the fact that both are producing plans for the "short-haul" jet business. Among participants in the radio discussion will be U.S. Sen.

Mike Monroney chairman of the commerce committee; Gov. Edmund G. Brown; Donald Douglas Sr. and Jr. The program is part of KFWB's "Project 98" series.

'The Addams Family' Rebels By VERNON SCOTT HOLLYWOOD TOPI A surprise hit of the current television season is "The Addams Family" on ABC-TV. Co-star John Astin explains this is a result of public rebellion against conformity. The off-beat nuts in the series would rather switch than fight. Astin and Carolyn Jones play Gomez and Morticia, a weird married couple who live in a museum-like monstrosity. Their children, grandmother and uncle are equally dotty.

The family pet is a full-grown lion. A disembodied hand and a monstrous butler named Lurch are the family servants. Astin, a man of considerable charm and wit, is entranced by the show himself, And he reports that cartoonist Charles Addams (from whose magazine cartoons the series was originated) is pleased with the results, too. "NONE OF US enjoy being compared with 'The Astin said. He was having lunch on Hollywood Boulevard and quickly became the victim of curious diners.

It figured. He was dressed in the hokey doublebreasted pin-stripe suit worn by Gomez. CAROLYN JONES, JOHN ASTIN "Addams Family" Parents "You see," he continued, "The on the outside but perfectly normal people in every er respect. "The Addams Family, on the other hand, are not monsters at all but terribly daffy in almost every respect. Like the Addams cartoons, our show is an attack on the cliches of life, a reverse joke.

"We are a family of nonconformists who live the way most people don't but I think we have a positive approach to things." AMONG the wacky pasttimes indulged in by the Addamses are miniature train wrecks, feeding a voracious meat-eating plant, and fencing matches between Morticia and Gomez. For laughs, Uncle Fester illuminates a light bulb by placing it in his mouth, and son Pugsley keeps his money in a live piggy bank. Astin, however, believes the popularity of the show lies in the tender love story of the principals. "In many respects we're the only normal family on Room Additions No Job Too Big-None Too Small! FREE ESTIMATES PROMPT SERVICE General Contractors V.A. PH.

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