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...case of Hoi Pham Tri illustrates the growing, voluntary response of U.S. military doctors and corpsmen to the medical problems of civilians. In the slack times between treating service men's wounds and illnesses, many doctors in the three medical corps have turned to treating the Vietnamese. Their motives are admittedly mixed. One is concern for the helpless, neglected sick; another is the challenge of severe cases. "Imagine!" says Dr. Pitlyk, "I wouldn't have seen a case like Hoi Pham's in five years at any emergency ward in the U.S., where people just...
...Hope, the other to Phyllis Diller, and Wrong Number demonstrates what a pair of fine stand-up comedians have to do to stretch out an idea that might comfortab'y fill four minutes of prime time. The body hustled hither and yon to take up the slack belongs to Elke Sommer, cast as a European sex queen who suffers an attack of artistic integrity midway through her umpteenth Hollywood bubble bath. Sensibly, she leaps out of the suds and heads straight for the north country to find peace...
...short, fat, gap-toothed, messy, and, according to one contemporary, had "the face of a pantler, the general look of a cobbler, the girth of a barrelmaker, the manners of a hatter." Estimates of his work were hardly more flattering: Sainte-Beuve dismissed his style as "prolix and formless, slack." The author of La Comédie Humaine, that panorama of post-revolutionary France, died up to his chins in debt to his mother, wife, sister, mistress, gardener and the village constable in Ville-d'Avray. Now the world stands heavily in Balzac's debt...
Television last week tautened its slack season with some of its finest hours, a reprise of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and a pastoral homily by Lyndon Johnson...
Events of any serious cultural significance on network TV are limited, these days, to a smattering of expensively produced specials. Educational TV attempts ,o pick up the slack. Among its current oferings at various dates and times on all 104 of the National Educational Television affiliates: Paris 1900, six one-hour plays by French Playwright Georges Feydeau adapted by a British repertory group; U.S.A.: The Opposition Theater, six 30-minute modern American dramas sampling the satirical and anti-Establishment wares of such groups as the Second City and the Living Theater; and V.S.A. Dance, several 30-minute ballets choreographed...