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Wednesday, July 28
ABC SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.).* "Westerns, European Style," a documentary featuring the filming of The Sheriff Doesn't Shoot, a Spanish-Italian cowboy picture being made at Rome's Cinecitta.
Thursday, July 29
THE DEFENDERS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Emlyn Williams and Ossie Davis in a drama about a murderer who bases a plea of self-defense on extrasensory perception. Repeat.
Saturday, July 31
FIFTH ANNUAL AMERICAN-SOVIET TRACK MEET (ABC, approximately 12:30-1:30 p.m.). Live from Kiev via Early Bird satellite.
ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Leo Durocher-san will try out his Japanese lip giving the play-byplay of the Japanese All-Star baseball game in Tokyo.
Sunday, August 1
AMERICAN-SOVIET TRACK MEET (ABC, approximately 12:30-1:30 p.m.). See above.
NBC'S SPORTS IN ACTION (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). The famous Etonian "Wall Game" from England and the National Collegiate Rodeo from Laramie, Wyo.
THE ROGUES (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "Gambit by the Golden Gate," an episode in which Marcel St. Clair (Charles Boyer) tries to appropriate a painting from an art collector (Broderick Crawford). Repeat.
Monday, August 2
THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Madlyn Rhue guest-stars as a desperate lovely who asks Solo and Illya for H.E.L.P. Repeat.
THEATER
Straw Hat
The usual formula for warm-weather theater is as fluffy as cotton candy. But in a few playhouses, more substantial offerings can be found.
BOOTHBAY, ME., Boothbay Playhouse: The Physicists. Three atomic scientists in an insane asylum try to outmad each other. Swiss Playwright Friedrich Duerrenmatt probes the problem of the trio's moral responsibility for the destructiveness of their discoveries.
NEW HAVEN, CONN., Long Wharf Theater: The Hostage. The late Irish playwright and scourge Brendan Behan is at his bawdy best, using ribald humor to outrage and amuse--and to reveal the depths beneath human shenanigans--in the story of a young English soldier kept as hostage by the I.R.A. in a Dublin brothel.
BROCKPORT, N.Y., Arts Festival: J.B. Archibald MacLeish's contemporary version of the Book of Job is dramatically striking and philosophically provoking as he searches for the brand of faith to sustain modern man in the face of stunning disasters.
MIDDLESEX, N.J., Foothill Playhouse: The Night of the Iguana is spent in the heart of the Mexican jungle--and of the human condition--by a typically tormented Tennessee Williams quartet. The intensity of the drama is more focused and frightening in its original stage form than in last year's screen version.
GETTYSBURG, PA., Summer Theater: The Playboy of the Western World is a timid young Irishman whose moments of rebellion earn him first adulation and then scorn. John Synge's 40-year-old comedy remains an ironic and telling tale.
MIDDLETOWN, VA., Wayside Theater: The Miracle Worker. William Gibson's dramatization of the struggle of Annie Sullivan to unlock the mind of the deaf-mute and blind child Helen Keller has become an enduring parable of perseverance and courage.
EVERGREEN PARK, ILL., Drury Lane Theater: Arms and the Man. Vintage Shaw only improves with age. His satire on the romantic view of life, love, and glory has almost as much bite today as it did when it first appeared, only a few years after the long-forgotten Serbo-Bulgarian War.
CINEMA
THE FASCIST. Italian history is wryly spoofed in the conflict between a Blackshirt corporal (Ugo Tognazzi) and the droll philosopher (Georges Wilson) whom he must steer through retreating Germans, invading Allies, and other perils common to the peninsula in 1944.
THE KNACK. As the gamin up for grabs in a town house occupied by three offbeat British bachelors, Rita Tushingham shines through the sight gags in Director Richard Lester's (A Hard Day's Night) frantic, frequently hilarious version of the New York-London stage hit.
A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA. A crew of pirates led by a reprobate captain (Anthony Quinn) falls under the spell of seven seemingly innocent children whose adventures have all the fun and much of the fury of Richard Hughes's quasi-classic tale.
THE COLLECTOR. In Director William Wyler's grisly but somewhat glamorized treatment of the bestseller by John Fowles, a lovely art student (Samantha Eggar) wages a war of nerves against a manic lepidopterist (Terence Stamp) who has arranged to lock her in a dungeon.
THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES. The exploits of pioneer airmen and their flaphappy craft warm up a daffy, 1910 London-Paris air race and slapstick nostalgia is provided by Gert Frobe, Alberto Sordi and Terry-Thomas.
CAT BALLOU. The funniest if not the fastest gun in the West is Lee Marvin, a double-barreled delight in his portrayals of two desperadoes, one determined to help and one to hinder the schemes of a pistol-packing schoolmarm (Jane Fonda).
HIGH INFIDELITY. In four zesty episodes, this Italian comedy draws and quarters the subjects of extramarital dalliance, assigning the choicer bits to a jealous wife (Monica Vitti) and a vacationing businessman (Nino Manfredi).
BOOKS
Best Reading
MICHAEL FARADAY, by L. Pearce Williams. Faraday (1791-1867) was, most experts agree, the greatest experimental scientist who ever lived; the first induction of electric current and the first dynamo are among his achievements. In this excellent biography, Author Williams shows how Faraday's almost limitless intelligence emerges and finally flourishes, with only a Sunday-school education and no usable mathematics whatever.
THE CAREFUL WRITER, by Theodore M. Bernstein. A compendium of grammatical gaffes--everyday and esoteric--that is a reference book and an entertaining brushup on basic English. It will grow wings on any fledgling grammarian gadfly.
LET ME COUNT THE WAYS, by Peter De Vries. Another painfully funny novel, this one about a Polish piano mover in the Midwest, by a writer who can play the clown and Hamlet too.
INTERN, by Doctor X. At the end of each 20-hour day that he spent as an intern in a metropolitan hospital, Doctor X wearily logged every last event into a tape recorder. The result is as remote and fascinating as an anthropologist's field report, as immediate and authentic as a skilled eyewitness account.
THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT, 1964, by Theodore H. White. The author's reporting skills are partly wasted on an election notably lacking in excitement or color. But the reader is rewarded with all the hot-line conversations and every last ravel in the G.O.P. sleave of care.
MUSTANGS AND COW HORSES, edited by J. Frank Dobie, Mody C. Boatwright and Harry H. Ransom. Authentic writing about the prairie of the 1840s when huge herds of swift, hardy mustangs had the run of the great plains. Then, in one brutal decade, they were tamed or killed in the frontiersmen's surge to the Rockies.
BOY GRAVELY, by Iris Dornfeld. A novel written by a musician about a slum boy who composes an electronic symphony from the sounds he has heard all his life and finally gets to hear it performed in the Hollywood Bowl. In telling about this unlikely hero, the author delineates the terrible disease and destiny that is genius.
THE MEMOIRS OF PANCHO VILLA, by Martin Luis Guzman. Long a confidant of Villa, Guzman has assembled the story of his life. There are gaps, but this is close to the definitive biography of the fiery Mexican leader who died an illiterate 42 years ago.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. The Source, Michener (1 last week)
2. Up the Down Staircase, Kaufman (2)
3. Hotei, Hailey (4)
4. The Green Berets, Moore (6)
5. The Ambassador, West (3)
6. Don't Stop the Carnival, Wouk (5)
7. The Looking Glass War, Le Carre
8. Night of Camp David, Knebel (7)
9. The Flight of the Falcon, Du Maurier (8)
10. A Pillar of Iron, Caldwell (9)
NONFICTION
1. The Making of the President, 1964, White (3)
2. Is Paris Burning? Collins and Lapierre (4)
3. Markings, Hammarskjold (1)
4. The Oxford History of the American People, Morison (2)
5. Journal of a Soul, Pope John XXIII (5)
6. Intern, Doctor X
7. Sixpence in Her Shoe, McGinley (9)
8. Queen Victoria, Longford (8)
9. Games People Play, Berne (10)
10. The Italians, Barzini (7)
* All times E.D.T.
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