TELEVISION

Wednesday, October 30 KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Roy Rogers and Dale Evans host the second annual Country Music Association awards presentation. Guests include Chet Atkins, Roger Miller, Johnny Cash, Tex Ritter, Hank Williams Jr.

Saturday, November 2 WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Los Angeles Times Grand Prix from Riverside, Calif.; World Professional Target Diving Championship from Las Vegas; and from Islip, N.Y., the World Championship Jalopy Demolition Derby (contestants scoot around a 100-yd. infield at speeds up to 40 m.p.h., bashing each other's car into junk.

HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Sammy Davis Jr., Aretha Franklin and Corbett Monica.

Sunday, November 3

AMERICAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE DOUBLEHEADER (NBC, 1:30-7 p.m.). First game: Buffalo Bills v. New York Jets at New York. Second game: Kansas City Chiefs v. Oakland Raiders at Oakland.

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE DOUBLEHEADER (CBS, 4 p.m. to conclusion). Cleveland Browns v. San Francisco 49ers from Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, following broadcast of regional NFL contest.

Tuesday, November 5 ELECTION NIGHT COVERAGE (ABC, 7 p.m.; CBS, 6:30; NBC, 7:30; all to conclusion). The three major networks pre-empt regularly scheduled programs with minute-by-minute computer coverage of election returns throughout the night.

THEATER

On Broadway

THE APA REPERTORY COMPANY offers two drawing-room comedies in verse. Moliere's The Misanthrope is as deliciously vicious a lampoon of the manners and meanness of Louis XIV's court as it was 300 years ago, and it is performed with panache. But T. S. Eliot's 1950 spiritual parable, The Cocktail Party, seems stilted and stale in a limp production.

THE GREAT WHITE HOPE. Playwright Howard Sackler models his hero on Jack Johnson, the first Negro heavyweight champion and bete noire of boxing--its professionals and public alike. Although James Earl Jones gives a forceful performance, the general style of acting and direction is American primitive.

THE MAN IN THE GLASS BOOTH. In a rerun of the victimization of the Jews and Nazi guilt, Actor-Author Robert Shaw introduces some precarious psychologizing and implausible "what-if" elements to an Eichmann-like situation. Donald Pleasence enlivens an otherwise turgid evening with a memorable performance.

Off Broadway

TEA PARTY and THE BASEMENT. In any play by Harold Pinter, the questions are the answers and the denouement is total uncertainty. The audience knows less at the end than it thought it knew at the beginning. In Tea Party, a successful manufacturer of "sanitary wares" is driven into a catatonic state by his secretary, his wife and her brother. In The Basement, members of a menage a trois struggle for power. While these one-acters are lesser Pinter, the playgoer is still held in a subtle grip.

HOW TO STEAL AN ELECTION is an unsubtle, indelicate, exuberant American-style political revue that satirizes all the U.S. Presidents from G.W. to L.BJ.

RECORDINGS

Vocal REGINA RESNIK: FRENCH, GERMAN, SPANISH AND RUSSIAN SONGS (Epic). Great singers never rely on vocal beauty alone, for they know that they must combine drama and music in almost equal parts. Regina Resnik's vocal stagecraft is nearly unexcelled. This disk offers a variety of songs, each a sharp, clear miniature of a thought, a mood or a conflict. Bronx-born Resnik employs her practical intelligence, her personal flair and her firmly controlled mezzo throughout the recording. But she is most effective when her Russian ancestry boils to the surface in a gloomy Prokofiev work. The Pillars, which she renders with wrenching despair.

DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST (Angel). This collection of lieder, arias and assorted other snippets gives a fair indication of Fischer-Dieskau's tal ent. He is a meticulous singer who never sloughs off a nuance or fuzzes an accent. Though his baritone is aptly described as dry rather than warm, he has range and power to spare. Lieder are his forte, but this disk demonstrates a thoroughgoing comprehension of opera as well.

EVELYN LEAR AND THOMAS STEWART: ROMANTISCHE DUETTE (Deutsche Grammophon). This recording unites the husband-and-wife team in a sedate but romantic hoedown. Evelyn Lear, most noted for her flamboyant version of Berg's violently atonal Lulu, becomes a demure turtledove in Schumann's Fair Little Flower. Thomas Stewart, memorable for his dour and doomed Wotan, pours out Stephen Foster's Hard Times Come Again No More with as much authority as any cotton-pick-in' baritone in the business.

FRANCO CORELLI: GRANADA AND OTHER ROMANTIC SONGS (Capitol). Corelli uses his miraculous equipment unstintingly. He never underestimates the power of a note, especially a high C that he can hold until even his listeners feel short of oxygen. His powerful dark tenor nearly steamrollers the modest little songs on this disk; few of them justify the fervor with which he belts them out.

CINEMA

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Using all the technical resources of the medium, Director Stanley Kubrick has produced a futuristic parable of man's place in the cosmos that is one of the most stunning visual adventures in film history.

THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES. The film adaptation of Frank D. Gilroy's play about familial agony in The Bronx is brought to life by the honest, homely acting of Patricia Neal, Jack Albertson and Martin Sheen.

ROMEO AND JULIET. Franco Zeffirelli turns one of Shakespeare's most familiar plays into a movie of stunning immediacy. Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, as the passionate, star-crossed lovers, perform with a maturity beyond their years.

THE BOFORS GUN. Life in the postwar British army is the subject of this vigorously antimilitary drama. David Warner and Nicol Williamson offer two of the best screen performances of the year.

BOOKS

Best Reading

THE PROGRESSIVE HISTORIANS, by Richard Hofstadter. A graceful and perceptive study of three men--Frederick Jackson Turner, Charles A. Beard and V. L. Parrington--who have most shaped America's conception of its past.

A SMALL TOWN IN GERMANY, by John le Carre. A missing embassy official, stolen secret files, and the illusion-fed machinations of the diplomatic life in Bonn are all part of the puzzle in this novel of suspense and political intrigue.

A FAN'S NOTES, by Frederick Exley. In this rambling, scrambling, fictionalized memoir, a young man, unable to participate in the American myth, uses pro-football heroes to act out his own in eluctable dreams.

STEPS, by Jerzy Kosinski. In his second novel, the author of The Painted Bird coolly describes a series of acts of voyeurism, cruelty and revenge that combine to form a shocking picture of a pathological mind.

THE FIRST CIRCLE, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. This classic, which will be read long after the Cold War is forgotten, remorselessly reveals the ways of state tyranny and the private means men find to fight it.

GEORGE ELIOT, by Gordon Haight. An admirable biography of a writer whose life was as rich in Victorian drama and morality as any of her novels.

MAKING GOOD AGAIN, by Lionel Davidson. Was Germany's cruelty to the Jews a sin or a crime or both? A writer of suspense novels tackles the question and spins a subtle tale as well.

TIME OUT, by David Ely. Weird stories for this secular age, among them a pirate cruise for tired businessmen and a desperate church organist's life-or-death struggle with a musical computer.

Best Sellers

FICTION

Airport, Hailey (2 last week) Preserve and Protect, Drury (1) The Salzburg Connection, Maclnnes (3) The Hurricane Years, Hawley (9) Testimony of Two Men, Caldwell (8)

6. The Beautiful Couple, Woolfolk

7. The Senator, Pearson (7)

8. Couples, Updike (5)

9. The First Circle, Solzhenitsyn (4) 10. True Grit, Portis (6)

NONFICTION 1. The Money Game, 'Adam Smith' (1)

2. The Rich and the Super-Rich, Lund berg (2)

3. Sixty Years on the Firing Line, Krock

4. The American Challenge, Servan-Schreiber (5)

5. Between Parent and Child, Ginott (4)

6. Iberia, Michener (7)

7. Soul on Ice, Cleaver (10)

8. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Wolfe (6)

9. The Case Against Congress, Pearson and Anderson

10. Here and Hereafter, Montgomery

*All times E.S.T.

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