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LOOK UP AND LIVE (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). First of an eight-part series on the "Images of Man," including highlights from Ingmar Bergman's Winter Light and the recent off-Broadway adaptation of Friedrich Nietzsche's parable The Madman...
...manner of combat soldiers the world over, his men seldom called him by anything but his nicknames. One was "Little Napoleon," because he was only a shade over 5 ft. 6 in. tall, had intense blue eyes and a shock of unruly black hair. They also called him "Madman Kelly," for during his six months in the South Viet Nam war, he flew more helicopter missions than...
...last week a familiar message came over the field radio in Kelly's headquarters; five Vietnamese and one American soldier had been shot in a fire fight near Cantho. As usual, Madman Kelly led the flight. As his "Huey" fluttered loudly into the paddyfield, the big red crosses on its side shone brightly in the high noon sun. Twenty feet away, the survivors and the wounded lay pinned down in their foxholes as Viet Cong ground fire crackled from a nearby wood line. So Kelly calmly lifted the Huey off the ground and began to "walk" it sideways toward...
...Chief Inspector Jean Samson of Paris' First Mobile Brigade, it appeared to be one of those senseless, psychotic murders committed by a madman who quickly gives himself away or else fades into the anonymity of the city and is never caught. But within a day of Jean-Luc Taron's murder, the case took a bizarre turn, and before the week was out Paris had been half-hypnotized with horror. For Jean-Luc's killer was a brazen publicity seeker, who taunted the cops and the newspapers with a barrage of telephone calls, special-delivery letters and threats of another...
Jack Ruby's main chance of escaping the electric chair lies in being found insane. Last week he was certainly trying to act like a madman...