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...York City's latest slumlord conviction has an unusual twist. Among the victims: a group of elderly whites in a Bronx apartment building. The landlord: James Meredith, 36, the prominent civil rights figure who was the first known Negro ever to attend the University of Mississippi. The tenants of the building testified that Meredith had cut off vital services in an effort to force them to agree to rent hikes in their rent-controlled apartments. A Bronx criminal-court judge found Meredith guilty on two counts; sentencing date is July 25, when Meredith faces a possible $250 fine...
...ENEMY, MY BROTHER, by James Forman (Meredith; $4.95). Three young Jewish survivors of a concentration camp make their way from Warsaw to an Israeli kibbutz only to be caught up in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. A thoughtful book best suited to older children...
Conceived as a classic western about the pursuit of one of those bitch goddesses, Mackenna's Gold is manned by an honor roll of movie stars of the '40s: Lee J. Cobb, Raymond Massev, Eduardo Ciannelli, Burgess Meredith, Edward G. Robinson, Keenan Wynn. Together they pick the hambone clean in a search for the usual lost gold cache -before they get wiped out in the customary massacre. Left over are a Mexican villain (Omar Sharif), leathery Marshal Mackenna (Gregory Peck), one surly, burly Apache and two obligatory ladies. The blonde (Camilla Sparv), supposedly Arizona-born and bred, speaks...
...Burgess Meredith narrates this Project 20 production that goes back into American history to look at the themes, ideals and values represented by national monuments such as the Jefferson and Lincoln memorials and the Washington Monument...
...SPRING THING (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Love and springtime are the subjects, and Noel Harrison and Bobbie Gentry the objects, with some outside help from Rod McKuen, Goldie Hawn, Shirley Bassey, Irwin C. Watson, Meredith MacRae and the Harpers Bizarre...