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What saves the play from such flaws is the peculiar power of Sacco and Vanzetti themselves, as it emerges from the broken but hauntingly eloquent English of their speeches, letters and diaries. In superb performances. Actors Martin Balsam (Sacco) and Steven Hill (Vanzetti) capture a strange mixture of gentleness and violence, a quality of patience and bewilderment in an alien, hostile world. One of the truly moving scenes seen on TV shows the two men in death cells, writing their last letters. There are Sacco's farewell words to his son: "And you will also not forget to love...
...Sacco-Vanzetti Story (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Presented on this and the following Friday, Reginald Rose's two-part play about Sacco and Vanzetti (Martin Balsam and Steven Hill) begins with the 1920 murder of a South Braintree, Mass, paymaster and payroll guard, traces the arrests and courtroom scenes that were played out before the attention of the world, as many felt that the immigrant defendants were more on trial for their anarchistic beliefs than for murder...
...Martin Balsam), for instance, is a phys. ed. instructor in a city high school, 30-some, decent and a little dumb. Three (Lee J. Cobb) is the boss of a messenger service, a dispositional bully who would rather punch somebody than stand up to his own problems. Four (E. G. Marshall) is a broker so coldblooded he never even sweats. Seven (Jack Warden) is a marmalade salesman who can really spread it on, and who is all for rushing the defendant to the chair so that he can hurry off to a seat of his own-at the evening ball...
...wife arrived on the Ellipse south of the White House. The Marine Band and a red-robed choir were raising the strains of the Hallelujah Chorus for a gathering crowd as the President made his way to a stage near the national Christmas tree, a 67-ft. balsam fir. Dwight Eisenhower removed his overcoat, stood bareheaded in the night air and gave his Christmas greetings to the world...
...make sure that higher temperature is killing the birches, Dr. Pomerleau told how researchers in New Brunswick warmed the roots of trees with electricity. They died faster than ever. There is evidence that spruce and balsam, and even the proud maples that are the symbol of Canada, may die as the climate changes...