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FICTION 1. Love Story, Segal (1 last week) 2. The French Lieutenant'sFowles (2) 3. Great Lion of God, Caldwell 4. Deliverance, Dickey (4) 5.Calico Palace, Bristow (5) 6. The Secret Woman, Holt 7. The Lord Won't Mind, Merrick 8. The Crystal Cave, Stewart (7) 9. Losing Battles, Welty (6) 10.The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, Breslin...
...Story, Segal (1 last week) 2. The French Lieutenant's Woman, Fowles (2) 3. Deliverance, Dickey (3) 4. Great Lion of God, Caldwell (5) 5. Losing Battles, Welty (4) 6. Calico Palace, Bristow (6) 7. Travels with My Aunt, Greene (8) 8. The Lord Won't Mind, Merrick 9. The Crystal Palace, Stewart 10. The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, Breslin...
...Reverence. So far, the only one who has expressed serious doubts about confirmation has been, surprisingly, the judge himself. He told TIME Correspondent Frank Merrick that he has "the utmost respect, almost a reverence," for the Supreme Court and that any man who sits on it, "ought to be without sin." What troubles Blackmun is that in searching back through the 900 cases he has handled as a federal judge since his appointment in 1959, he found three in which he had rendered decisions, although he held a small stock interest in companies involved in the litigation. Blackmun brought those...
...theater, black is bitter. During a given tested month, December of 1969, more than half of all the black actors employed on Broadway were working in one show, the all-black production of David Merrick's Hello, Dolly!, and the cast numbered...
...Merrick is a theatrical barometer. In 1961 he hired not a single black actor for his musical, Subways Are for Sleeping, though the Manhattan locale is a spectrum of racial color. On the other hand, he has employed a skilled black stage manager, Charles Blackwell, for years. In 1957 Merrick briefly ruptured the tacit ban on black stagehands by insisting on hiring some for his musical Jamaica. But that was an isolated case, and there is scarcely a black stagehand around. The union has been totally familial, a closed corporation. As Producer Arthur Cantor puts it: "You have...