Word: americas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FOOTBALL-BIG GAME AMERICA (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Burt Lancaster narrates this salute to the 50th anniversary of pro football...
...MISS AMERICA PAGEANT (NBC, 10 p.m. to midnight). There she'll stand-if you can sit there long enough...
Taking the matter into his own hands, a long-haired hairdresser named Bob Woodford, 31, started making shorthair wigs for America's harried longhairs. "When it doesn't make sense to have long hair in certain situations," he says, "you have two alternatives: you can cut it and wait two years for it to grow back or you can cover it up with a wig. Take a guy in the Army reserve. If he's going into drill for two days, why should he have to change his image for the other 28 days? The sergeants...
...Woodford's wigs. He didn't beat the rap, but the arresting officer said: "Well, one good thing came out of this: you got your hair cut." Another bought his wig so that customs agents would not search him for marijuana after a trip to South America...
...subplot involving West's compulsion to murder Negro women (his mother, who deserted him, was a very dark-skinned Sicilian). It is here that the dreary suspicion of allegory crosses the reader's mind. It may not be true that West is meant to stand for corrupt America, and the Negro women for America's blacks, but the book has been so mishandled by this point that no reader can be sure...