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...filmed in a record two days on a starvation budget of $37,000). A.I.P.'s classic horror title was I Was a Teenage Werewolf, which caused traffic jams at drive-in theaters and earned $2,000,000. Similarly, A.I.P. has made quick killings on bargain-basement Biblicals (Goliath and the Barbarians, Goliath and the Sins of Babylon), on way-outer spaces (Angry Red Planet, Battle Beyond the Sun) and teen-age topicals (Dragstrip Riot, Reform School Girl...
...five smooth stones of the title are the ones that David carried into battle against Goliath; using roughly 82,000 cliched words per stone, the author indulges in literary overkill, with her sling relentlessly aimed at the bestseller lists. Her hero is a young, hypersensitive Southern Negro named David, a genius, jazz virtuoso and cripple, who makes his way from a dresser-drawer crib in New Orleans to Harvard and Oxford, and back to the civil rights battlegrounds of the South. Her white characters, including a college cutup named Sudsy Sutherland and a heavy called OP Clete, seem to derive...
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SPECIAL (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). "The Hidden World" takes a look into the fascinating realm of insects, among them a Phasmida called the giant walking stick, which can grow up to 16 inches long, the goliath beetle, which is 4 inches long, and a swarm of locusts stretching for 23 miles...
Shafer last week led by 6% in some polls, but the undecided vote is extraordinarily large-one poll puts it as high as 45% . One reason for the indecision is that though many voters once thought of Shapp as the David-however well armed-who overturned the Democratic Goliath, they now question whether the open-handed electronics tycoon is qualified to take over the state government. Cleveland-born Shapp has not been helped by his bray that "I know more about Pennsylvania than any other one man in the state." Neither Governor Scranton, whose family has been prominent...
...McCarthy, 63, who had been chairman since 1961, moved up to executive committee chairman. President George J. Leness, 63, became chairman. With only two years left before mandatory retirement, McCarthy and Leness are really beginning to phase themselves out; they plan to spend most of their time pondering about Goliath's long-range future...