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...trend toward revivals, The Front Page is reopening this fall and will be joined by Harvey (James Stewart) and Our Town (Henry Fonda). An all-American series at Lincoln Center's repertory theater includes The Time of Your Life, Camino Real, Beggar on Horseback, plus Sam Shepard's new play, Operation Sidewinder, a wild satire of the contemporary U.S. scene, featuring an Air Force computer in the form of a sidewinder rattlesnake. Comedy is in short supply, but Mike Nichols is directing The Memorandum, a French farce about a determined bachelor and the girl who upsets his ordered...
Neither, it seemed, was there anything more difficult. Before Kennedy made his moon-landing announcement, the nation's entire manned space experience totaled 15 min. 20 sec.-the length of Alan Shepard's suborbital fling down the Atlantic test range on May 5, 1961. Rockets had been blowing up on their Cape Canaveral launch pads with humiliating frequency; from 1958 to 1964, the U.S. suffered 13 straight failures in its efforts to send rockets around or onto the moon...
Married. Laura Louise Shepard, 21, older daughter of Astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American into space; and Army 2nd Lieut. Jonathan Churchill Snyder, 23, a former schoolmate at Principia College, Elsah, Ill.; in a Methodist ceremony in Houston...
...format of Oh! Calcutta! is rather like that of short short stories and cartoons strung together in the revue fashion of a supper-club show. Though the program does not say who wrote what, the playwrights include Samuel Beckett, Dan Greenburg, Jules Feiffer, John Lennon, Leonard Melfi, Sam Shepard, Tynan himself, and others. Their playlets will doubtless enhance their royalties if not their reputations...
...PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-10 p.m.). Three avant-garde plays by the La Mama Playwrights: Puvane by Jean-Claude van Itallie, Fourteen Hundred Thousand by Sam Shepard, and The Recluse by Paul Foster...