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McKenna is tough, angry, morally destroyed--a typical Lawrence Harvey role, superbly tailored for him. But even Harvey's skillful portrayal places second to the great performance of Ross Martin, late of TV's Mr. Lucky and a madman role. His development of the prosecutor is a microcosm of the film: when it is sensible, he is a stern moralist; when it becomes a film noir, he turns into a monster...
...booming automobile-making town of Luton, Tory Party Chairman John Hare declared recently, is "a microcosm of the Britain we are building." If so, it may be the Socialists who will take over the construction job. At a by-election last week in Luton, 30 miles northwest of London, voters elected a Labor M.P. for the first time in 13 years, turning the Tories' 1959 majority of 5,000 votes into a thumping 3,749-vote margin for Labor. The switch, pronounced Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson triumphantly, was clear proof that "the Conservative government has totally lost...
...dozen more will do the same in the next twelve months. The rage and the revolution are rising everywhere, and everywhere the new movements are really one movement, a new international cinema in which all the world's a sound stage and the screen emblazons a microcosm of mankind...
Back to Quiz. NBC will also begin a drama series about a blackboard-jungle Tarzan, Mr. Novak, with James Franciscus as the muscular teach. Then the viewer can graduate to ABC's Channing, a university with ivy and all-"a world in microcosm," says ABC, "reflecting an alltime interest in the college scene." Thus prepared, the viewer is at last ready for the first big-money quiz show in five years. ABC, figuring TV has outlived the shame of its scandals, has plunged on a new quiz program named for its top take, 100 Grand. The network nostalgically insists...
Nowhere is the problem more pressing than in La Laguna. a 2,000-sq.-mi. farm belt in north central Mexico that is a sort of microcosm of the ills afflicting the Mexican farmer. For years, La Laguna was rich and productive, watered by late summer showers and the Nazas and Aguanaval rivers. More than half of the country's cotton came from the area. Then 15 years ago, the rains tailed off, the rivers began drying up, and the crops dwindled to half their former size. Now, over a year's time, ten times more water evaporates...