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...shoulders on his rangy (6 ft. 4 in.) frame still seem persuasive enough to get his football scholarship to Southern Cal renewed. He still looks born to the saddle; in The War Wagon, he mounted his horse with his own steam, while Co-Star Kirk Douglas, ten years younger, had to leap aboard his mount with the help of an unseen trampoline. The only perceptible indications of Wayne's years are a bit more heft around the middle and the hairpiece he wears on the set to mask a thinning pate...
Along the way, lives conveniently intertwine like braids. The frustrated newlywed groom sleeps with a nubile teenager, and gets her pregnant. A wild shot in the dark kills a prowling Indian boy. His father, a Sioux chieftain, demands a life for a life, and the leader of the pioneers (Kirk Douglas) hangs the offender-who happens to be the adulterer-with his own hands. Widmark's son nobly proposes marriage to the teenager...
CORTEZ AND THE LEGEND (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Kirk Douglas narrates the epic of Hernando Cortez's conquest of Mexico. Cameras retrace the route taken by Cortez and his band from Tabasco, where they landed in 1519, to Mexico City, site of Montezuma's Aztec capital, which they destroyed...
...dismiss Kirk as merely a swinger who got lucky may be underestimating the Governor. He has shown himself to be an effective political organizer. Immediately after his victory last November, he rudely shook Florida's somnolent Republican Party into wide-eyed activity. He installed an effective state chairman, began a successful fund-raising campaign, and provided his largely inexperienced slate of legislative candidates with local organizational support and professional opinion-sampling services. The polls reported that the voters were unhappy about crime, taxes and Lyndon Johnson; Republican candidates denounced all three in energetic unison. The Democrats, by contrast, were...
...last week's election, Kirk declared: "We're going to clean out the old crowd and bring in a new crowd. It's bad from bottom...