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Through leaks and innuendo, his enemies have tried to discredit his testimony in advance by describing him as a craven, cowering man who is testifying only to save himself from prison where he fears homosexual rape because of his blond-boyish good looks. Dean denies having such fears and has used his own attorneys and associates to portray himself as being interested only in getting the truth out. But first he demanded immunity from prosecution for what he says, and he slipped tidbits of information to various newspapers and magazines in an effort to win their support in his campaign...
...past five years, the handsome, boyish King of the Hellenes has languished in comfortable Roman exile. When not taking correspondence courses in political science from Cambridge University, he has spent much of his time playing wretched rounds of golf (with balls supplied by Richard Nixon) or sailing in an assured, near professional style (he was an Olympic gold medalist in 1960). Deadly serious about his future, King Constantine, 33, has conscientiously kept up with Greek politics since the failure of a 1967 attempt to oust the junta forced him to flee his homeland...
...thought that this man of steel could be moved by the afflictions of mere mortals. But then, who are we to blame him? Can we force back the tears at the sight of good Republican citizens, some even millionaires, faced with humiliation and perhaps prison, all for a few boyish (if illegal) pranks...
FRIDAY: Tom Sawyer. Twain's classic tale of boyish mischief on the Mississippi comes to television minus some of Tom's mischief and with an Ontario setting. Very Walt Disney. CH. 7. 8 p.m. Color...
...sons, Denis Quilley and Ronald Pickup are more than adequate but, by comparison with Olivier and Cummings, less than satisfying. Quilley lacks Jamie's brass as a kind of Broadway bounder; Pickup fails to capture the boyish, romantic openness of the 23-year-old Edmund, O'Neill's image of his youthful self. Still, both succeed in expressing some of the play's sorrow and outrage at life's pattern of betrayal. "None of us can help the things life has done to us," Mary says at one point. "They're done before...