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DISCOVERY (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-12 noon). A look at Liverpool, England, home of the Beatles, Mersey Monsters, Undertakers and other musical mobs...
Another schema, on "The Church and the Modern World," denounced nuclear weapons that have "effects greater than can be imagined" as "most wicked." Some European and Oriental prelates wanted to make this denunciation even more specific; but Auxiliary Bishop Philip Hannan of Washington and Archbishop George Andrew Beck of Liverpool argued that the schema said too much about banning the bomb and too little about disarmament controls. Beck said that the council should not be too quick to condemn governments that have kept the peace and freedom through the nuclear deterrent: "To turn the other cheek is a counsel...
Personalities. The Tories suffered particularly painful embarrassment in the defeat of several of their Cabinet members: ex-Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's son Maurice, who was Economic Secretary to the Treasury, lost in Halifax; Postmaster-General Reginald Bevins was beaten in Liverpool; Health Minister Anthony Barber fell at Doncaster; and Geoffrey Rippon, Minister of Works, was defeated at Norwich. But Labor had a bad local setback too. Patrick Gordon Walker, slated to be Foreign Secretary, was beaten in his constituency of Smethwick, a part of Birmingham where the race issue is raging because of heavy immigration by West Indians...
...play down the relatively untested Labour Front Bench. The Americanization of British politics has proceeded to such a point, then, that an unwary observer might conclude that Harold Wilson is standing for some national office, rather than for reelection in his constituency of Huyton, a suburb of Liverpool...
...Father. Lionel Bart, composer of Oliver, is also at his best in a new musical called Maggie May. Maggie is a Liverpool strumpet, played with unbuttoned excellence by Rachel Roberts. She dreams of the day when her First will come home. He is a sailor, and when he does return, he becomes a dockside agitator and strike leader, as his father once was-a hazardous occupation that results in his violent death. Kenneth Haigh, who was the original Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger, is just right as the hero. Bart's music is beautifully done-"edging towards...