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Groton, the Electric Boat Co. sealed off a special section of their yard and nicknamed it "Siberia." There, in guarded isolation, the Navy's shipbuilders and scientists started putting together a wooden mock-up of the atomic...
...that inspired them. Only the most unyielding Alice cultists would begrudge Disney an adapter's liberties, even when he feels forced to omit some favorite passages and characters, e.g., the White Knight, Humpty Dumpty. But Disney's liberties betray the tone and spirit of the original. The mock-solemn humor of Carroll's perversely logical nonsense is all but lost in a jazzed-up jangle of gags, violence, slapstick and sticky jukebox ballads. Only rarely, e.g., the scene where Alice (spoken by Kathy Beaumont) meets the hookah-smoking caterpillar (Richard Haydn), does the Disney idiom enrich...
Midwest Hayride (Sat. 9 p.m., NBCTV) originates in Cincinnati and is billed as "an hour of songs, fun and laughter." The songs are full of hillbilly yips and cowboy yodels; the fun is provided by a backwoods M.C. with a burlesque approach; the laughter comes from mock titles like If I Can Get Through the Mattress I'll Meet You in the Spring. On the credit side: some spirited square dancing...
...Glue of Lust. This time Mailer's jungle is asphalt instead of tropical. Penned in the stuffy cubicles of a Brooklyn rooming house are some of the wrecks and the wreckers of contemporary society. Mock hero of the piece is Michael Lovett, an ex-G.I. with a remade plastic face and a blacked-out memory, the author's symbol for the crippled common man. A writer, "Mikey" Lovett tries to grasp the haunted, hunted relationships around him. Soon he finds that he and the other occupants are stuck together with the glue of lust and politics...
...said the President blithely, the general is in the U.S. now. He can do anything he pleases without the slightest interference from his Commander in Chief. Does the same thing apply to General Whitney? That seems to be the case, cracked Harry Truman, with a look of mock despair. He has strings he could pull to restrain both generals, said the President, but he isn't going to use them...