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Wild in the Country (20th Century-Fox) casts Elvis Presley, the well-to-do Memphis meadowlark, as a farm boy who fears he bears the mark of Cain because he clonked his brother with a milking stool. The parole board takes the broad view, however, and soon Elvis is out haylofting with two chicks, brown-haired Millie Perkins, a long way from The Diary of Anne Frank, and Tuesday Weld, a 17-year-old who is going to look a great deal like Saturday night before she is 20. Afternoons he spends with Hope Lange, a widowed psychologist...
...Brothers M, by Tom Stacey. Another disturbing African novel about an oddly matched pair of students, McNair (white) and Mukasa (black), and a journey that turns them into Cain and Abel...
...Cain is a dour, sly farmer with qualities still highly regarded by north-countrymen :-thrift, industry, independence ("By all men I set not a fart")-who tries to cheat God in the number of wheat sheaves he offers...
Oaters & Eyes. What about next season? Well, The Untouchables will be back, along with a host of more or less recognizable imitations: ABC's Roaring 20s and The Corrupters, NBC's Cain's 100, CBS's The Defenders. The next season will be the bloodiest ever: of 73½ hours of prime evening time, the three networks already have tentatively budgeted 30½ to oaters, private eyes and "action-adventure" series (see chart...
...Cain & Abel. Author Wheeler paces his novel skillfully by uncorking surprises in the relation of white with white and black with black. His analysis of race prejudice itself packs no surprises and probes no great psychological depth, since he is content to argue that hate, like love, is blind. Even near novel's end, Matt and Lamar are scarcely better brothers under the skin than Cain and Abel. They agree only that their children may learn to live together without racial conflict and deserve the chance...