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...strangely appealing blend of whimsy and nightshade. Dennis Pitt (Anthony Perkins) is a paranoid, intrigue-minded young wanderer who has convinced himself that a local factory is polluting the river and poisoning the entire population. With the help of a naive drum majorette (Tuesday Weld), he grandiosely plots to foil the sinister scheme. Their plans, of course, go haywire; so do they. The girl carelessly murders a nightwatchman at the factory, and discovers that killing is not only much less strenuous than high school band practice, it is-for her-much more fun besides. Perkins initially has his doubts that...
Died. Bea Benaderet, 62, character actress, who starred as the folksy, warmhearted Kate Bradley in TV's Petticoat Junction; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles. After years of bending her voice on radio into every accent from Brooklyn to the Ozarks as a comic foil for Fibber McGee and Molly, and Jack Benny, Bea finally got a chance to show her face on TV. In 1950, she appeared as Blanche Morton on The George Burns-Gracie Allen Show and in 1962, as Cousin Pearl on The Beverly Hillbillies, before graduating to Petticoat Junction...
...buildings in different parts of the city, all with temples like this, all waiting for me." He is referring not to clandestine churches but to the freest places in the country-the stalls in public toilets. Elsewhere the narrator attends a party reception and observes a disaffected scientist pinning foil-wrapped condoms to the chests of unsuspecting apparatchiks...
...George Wallace. The Alabamian is gaining so many votes, says one happy Southern Congressman, that he is now as strong as "50 acres of horseradish." Other Congressmen are appalled at the possible result: the Wallace phenomenon may throw the election into the House of Representatives. The outcome could foil most voters' wishes and upset the two-party system in Congress. To House Majority Whip Hale Boggs, "the idea is absolute anarchy...
...former slave. No Uncle Tom, Young can barely stand the sight of his erstwhile oppressor. Since straight-shooting hands are hard to find, he takes Murray on as a temporary sidekick. Whitey does not cotton to the setup either, and the two bristle at each other even as they foil a gold heist. A mutually respectful, but hostile, black-white relationship is a departure for TV "realism." Whether it can be made as durable as the warm, three-year-long buddyship of I Spy's Bill Cosby and Robert Gulp is questionable...