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...Every penologist extols "individualized treatment" to cure each inmate's hangups and return society's misfits to crime-free lives. But the rhetoric is so far from reality that perhaps 40% of all released inmates (75% in some areas) are reimprisoned within five years, often for worse crimes. Says Rod Beaty, 33, who began with a $65 forged check, became an armed robber, and is now a four-time loser in San Quentin: "Here you lose all sense of values. A human life is worth 35#, the price of a pack of cigarettes. After five years on the inside...
With Harris as Cromwell, George C. Scott as Patton, and Rod Steiger forthcoming as Napoleon, movie audiences will soon have that "choose a tyrant for 99c" option used to sell biographies of Louis XIV and Stalin in the book section of the New York Times. As biographies become flabby compendia, so historical movies-with the notable exception of Rossellini's The Rise of Louis XIV -go up in factual pretension while they go down in quality. Darryl Zanuck in Tora! Tora! Tora! spent millions to reproduce historical fact, but sacrificed artistic coherence for lavish commercial packaging. Hughes' Cromwell also fails...
...right head would have believed that Ali MacGraw would be the divining rod for a movie trend? A lady who never watches television, who wrote a whole book when Grounds was killed by a car, who copied out Fitzgerald's Winter Dreams in longhand for Evans? Not even
...Arthur Ashe. "The girls have all the shots the men do," says Billie Jean King. "Maybe not as much muscle and power, but girls use a lot more tactics. That's why people who play on the local level relate to us more than they do to a Rod Laver or a Pancho Gonzalez. Our game is more like theirs." The Richmond tournament last month, which Mrs. King won with a final-round 6-3, 6-3 victory over Nancy Richey, was sold out before it opened. And with the first women-only tour booked for seven cities...
This problem is especially acute in the backfield, where the primary decision will have to be made at quarterback. Both Rod Foster and Eric Crone are back, and both carry impressive credentials from this year...