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...York's Mayor John Lindsay and a 21-hour political strategy dinner with Governor Rockefeller, the Michigander's strongest backer. Though he could write a Baedeker on New York's slums and the avoidance of riots, Lindsay decided not to join Romney on a trip through Bedford-Stuyvesant and Harlem. "I think it is better if he goes alone rather than be inhibited by the presence of other officials," the mayor said delicately. "In other words," a newsman asked, "it's best that the Governor is not 'brainwashed?' " "I didn't say that...
...This is not a love-in," squawked a pimply bacchante, "it's a cash-in." And so it was-another ingenious cash-in by the eleemosynarily inspired Duke of Bedford, 50, who for a price stands ever-ready to throw open the gate of historic, debt-encrusted Woburn Abbey...
...streets, and coaxed from a group of inexperienced youngsters (some of whom showed up for work with switchblades) a series of magnificent life studies. One unforgettable moment: Ellen O'Mara as the Fat Girl, at a school dance in the arms of the English teacher (Patrick Bedford) she idolizes, her square pudding face aglow in awe and beatification. At such moments, rare in cinematic annals, the camera uses unadorned reality as its point of departure and comes around full circle...
CORONET BLUE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Jack Cassidy stars as a shady character who sets out to frame Michael Alden (Frank Converse) for murder. Brian Bedford and Brenda Vaccaro are also featured guests...
...chiefly provided by Bob Dishy as a zany, Teutonically accented technician of ever-improving death machines who is always ready to sell his services to the highest bidder. The cast delivers the lines as if they were quotations, and even such accomplished performers as Howard Da Silva and Brian Bedford seem a trifle stilted. Christopher Walken, however, breathes radiant innocence into the unknown soldier, and stirs the only honest emotion of the evening...