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...naive" and insisted that Blake's escape from Wormwood Scrubs was a Soviet-planned breakout, abetted perhaps by London "scarperers" (specialists in prison escapes). Blake, they guessed, was already en route to Moscow-perhaps in a Russian trawler. Even Author John le Carré, whose own character Alec Leamas would have ultimately been more cynical, found the triple-agent theory "romantic nonsense...
...comedy written more than half a century ago by Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallières. Gina Lollobrigida, looking as delicately outraged as a piece of fine cracked china, plays the neglected bourgeois wife of bumptious Robert Morley. In revenge, she undertakes a night on the town with Neighbor Alec Guinness. The sly old seducer lures her to a disreputable inn where-true to formula-his promised evening of bliss ends up as a harmless orgy of slammed doors and mistaken identity, climaxed by a chase involving a fat lady, a nephew, an upstairs maid, a seething proprietor, a bellboy...
...BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (ABC, 8-11 p.m.). Alec Guinness, William Hoiden and Jack Hawkins in the splendid 1957 Academy Award winner about the heroes, reluctant and otherwise, in a World War II Japanese prison camp...
Heath, the first Conservative leader to come from a middle-class background, succeeded former Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home in July, 1965, after a bitter intra-party struggle...
...Wilson's program. "Dull and stale and very uninspired" were his words in the opening debate on the Queen's Speech. To prepare for the wrangles to come, Heath trimmed his shadow Cabinet from 22 to 17 members, scrapping the last vestiges of ex-Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home's influence. Out to the back benches went former Ministers Duncan Sandys (Commonwealth and Colonies), Ernest Marples (Transport), Selwyn Lloyd (Chancellor of the Exchequer) and two others. Lloyd will aid Heath in reorganizing the Conservative Party at its weakest point-in the Labor-eroded northwest...