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Amidst its famine of pleasures, War Lord affords a feast of anachronisms, the choicest assigned to his lordship's quarrelsome sibling (Guy Stockwell, brother of Dean), who ends one clash with the withering retort: "I hate your knightly guts." Scenarists Millard Kaufman and John Collier share credit for this adaptation of The Lovers, a somber play by Leslie Stevens that lasted less than a week on Broadway. The movie version runs on and on and on, but proves nothing whatever about the survival of the fittest...
...Voting Rights Act has banished the discriminatory literacy requirements that disenfranchised Southern Negroes for almost 100 years. But one of the fruits of becoming a registered voter is eligibility for jury duty, and if a strange case in Florida's Collier County is any guide, Southern courts may now face a problem of more illiterate Negro voters (in addition to already illiterate whites) becoming illiterate jurors...
...books outside of school. Mohn now has four clubs for books and records, and a membership of 3,200,000, including Chancellor Ludwig Erhard. This year he will put out 22 million books and write up sales of some $80 million. (The U.S.'s largest book publisher, Crowell-Collier-Macmillan, last year had sales of $113 million...
...trio, Robert Collier and Walter Bowe, claimed that the idea for the crime came from another man, Robert Wood, who later turned out to be an undercover detective. (Another member of the group, Michelle Duclos, a French Canadian, pleaded guilty and got a five-year jail sentence.) The defense argued, in effect, that the whole affair was Detective Wood's idea; if he had not conned them into securing 30 sticks of dynamite and working out the details of the proposed sabotage, there would not have been any conspiracy...
BARNARD LAW COLLIER New York Herald Tribune San Juan...