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...they weren't fouled up enough already. Dropping two straight games to the Pittsburgh Pirates, they flew to New York to play the Mets, were greeted in Shea Stadium by a banner that read: BEAT ATLWAUKEE-OR IS IT MILWANTA? Either way it spelled loser. The Mets kicked away the first game 3-2, next day scalped the Braves 3-1 to put whatever-their-name-was in ninth place...
Some of the performances, however, nearly transcend their material. Jack Cassidy as the gossip columnist Max Mencken is unbelievably slick and professional. Michael O'Sullivan hams to a proper excess as a ten-time Nobel Prize loser who takes revenge on the world by trying to destroy its culture-hero, Superman. Bob Holiday's deadpan makes him perfect for the title role...
Because Peking is beginning to look like a loser, its position is markedly deteriorating just about everywhere. Cuba has slammed the door in its face be cause it welshed on a rice deal (TIME, Feb. 18). Last week in Indonesia, once the brightest Red Chinese hope in Southeast Asia, the deputy chairman of the Communist Party went on trial for leading a revolt against the government, and the now-dominant army leaders huffily withdrew their ambassador to Peking for "consultation." Peking has fallen into disrepute in most of Africa, where it has failed to produce on its big promises...
...perils of an education at Harvard. Marshall's son, played by Britain's James Fox, drawls endearments to Jane Fonda, who conquers a casting error as Bubber's faithless wife, making trollopy white trash seem altogether first class. Actor Redford, as Bubber, plays a born loser engagingly but cannot quite mask the clear-eyed confidence of a boy born lucky. All three finally flee to a flaming auto junkyard where virtually the entire county converges, brandishing torches, cheap whisky and other unmistakable symbols of moral decay...
Rising Tempers. If so, the accord is hardly apparent. A.T. &T. Chairman Frederick Kappel has denounced the inquiry as "totally unwarranted and unnecessary," predicted that it will be "painfully slow and costly," with the "telephone-using public the loser...