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Screenplay by Hugh Whitmore...
...first to spot the invasion in the South was retired Textile Worker Hugh Salmons, who on May 9 saw the glistening bodies on the willow oaks in his front yard in Elkin, N.C. The next morning, Judy Carpenter, 32, of Blairsville, Ga., was in the backyard playing softball with her daughter when she saw the intruder, its red eyes glinting in the sun and its clawed front feet pulling it through the grass. Within 24 hours she had collected 21 of them in a jar from the rhododendron bush in front of the house...
...characters seem to be caricatures rather than real personalities. General Kangaroo (Hugh Keays-Byrne), for instance, is a one-dimensional fascist, a leader without compassion, love or warmth. He has no traits other than greed and we are left wondering why his devoted cultish followers would ever have taken him seriously...
Without hesitation, they pass. "It would ruin our salary structure," they explain. The high bid belongs to Hugh Sweeney's Wssox, so attention now focuses on the Moose Factory, Rickey's employer the past two seasons and the holder of topping rights to his salary. For $1 more, Mooser Alex Patton, the league's winningest owner, can have his star player back for two more years at $70. But Patton passes too. The league breathes a double sigh of relief...
CORRESPONDENTS: Henry Muller (Chief); B. William Mader, John F. Stacks (Deputies) Washington Contributing Editor: Hugh Sidey National Political Correspondent: Laurence I. Barrett...