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...science, the gap between prophecy and fact has narrowed amazingly. The most remote-seeming theories are speedily turned into fact, at least in the lab. Hence the future often seems to arrive with the morning mail-and now, with a flick of the TV dial. A late-season sleeper called The 21st Century, narrated by Walter Cronkite (CBS, Sundays) is bringing forth little weekly chunks of the future as it exists today...
Reality intrudes into their make-believe celluloid world when they seek to exchange their hostage for a bag full of francs. A policeman tries to arrest them for double parking and with one flic, the flick, for them, is over. The boys lose their cool, shoot the cop, and spray the surrounding crowd with a submachine gun; three innocent bystanders die. The thieves flee, and like kids miming a game of cops and robbers they shoot it out on the rocks in an abandoned quarry. But playtime is over; the bullets are for real...
SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Eighteenth century Londoners frequented Richard Sheridan's classroom of comedy to be taught their three Rs: the Risque, Rumor, Revenge. The APA go through their lessons with a flick of their wits...
...Tony Martin's nightclub act, but her career was going nowhere. The Dodge Rebellion revolutionized all that. Last year she earned $34,000 plus residuals for making great televised escapes. This year she asked for and got $60,000, plus residuals. And she has just completed a flick with Pat Boone called-of all things-Perils of Pauline...
Basrache's flick of the wrist nullified a fine game by Fitzsimmons, who made 32 saves to McPhee's 41, and exceptional work on defense by the tandem of Charme Scammon and Boh Carr...