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...Deal on Madonna Street (Cris-taldi-Lux; U.M.P.O.), made in Italy by a little-known director named Mario Monicelli, is a mildly shaggy, fracturingly funny lecture on a subject that nobody since Buster Keaton has really done justice to: How Not To Commit A Burglary...
...smelled, as always, of strong tobacco and stronger coffee. Most of the prostitutes and pimps that used to degrade the city were gone, cleaned out by Fidel Castro's moralistic revolution. In eastern Santiago, teen-agers danced in the streets to the latest Afro-Cuban rhythm, a hip-buster called the pachanca...
Some congressional Republicans, caught in the Administration's policy turnaround, said noncommittally that Medicare "deserved study." House G.O.P. Leader and Budget Crusader Charlie Halleck admitted sadly that it was a "budget buster." Arizona's Barry Goldwater raised the cry of "socialized medicine," called the plan part of a "dime-store New Deal." The American Medical Association damned it from the one side as unnecessary, while the A.F.L.-C.I.O.-which has led the political crusade for the Forand bill-damned it from the other as political. New Jersey's Democratic Governor Robert Meyner called it "absolutely stupid...
Epic Tax Dodge. Parkinson's Second Law-"Expenditure rises to meet income" -is scarcely a novel blockhead buster...
Ellery Queen (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Rerun of This Murder Comes to You Live, a standard whodunit with a special appeal: this time a TV panelist is murdered on the air. Involved in the happy crime: Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ben Hecht, Ray Walston and Buster Crabbe. Color...