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...Outsider (NBC, Wednesday, 10-11 p.m.). Darren McGavin, who played Mike Hammer in the television series, is now a mercifully un-Hammerlike private eye named David Ross. In the first program, Ross got his work done without resorting to brutality and heman seductions; he impersonated a millionaire gambler in an effort to trap a crooked cardplayer. Ross exposed the cheater and departed, having provided the viewer with a provocative glimpse of a cutthroat poker game. That's all, and that's enough...
TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 8:30-11 p.m.). Saratoga Trunk (1945). Hollywood's version of Edna Ferber's 1941 bestseller about the romance between a roving gambler (Gary Cooper) and an exotic Creole (Ingrid Bergman). Repeat...
...COMEDY PLAYHOUSE (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). "The Blue-Eyed Horse." Is that any way to describe your wife? You bet it is, when she's a compulsive gambler who has somehow been transformed into a four-legged filly. But wishes aren't always horses. Ernest Borgnine and Joan Blondell star...
...peasant from both Saigon's tyranny and Viet Cong terror. "I don't want to see wars of national liberation become viable, exportable commodities," says Corson, who views the escalation from about 650 U.S. advisers in 1959 to today's 534,000 troops as a gambler's compulsive urge to multiply his stake on a losing number. As requisites for victory, Corson wants U.S. troop strength halved and all bombing over North Viet Nam halted...
With the graven mien of a frontier gambler who has peeked at his opponent's hole card, the Arkansas Democrat has stood pat against Lyndon Johnson - himself the master emeritus of Capitol Hill poker - matching imperturbably the President's wiles, threats and blandishments for 1 6 weary months...