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...What Makes Sammy Run (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A welcome reprise: the second half of Budd Schulberg's dramatized novel, with Larry Blyden as Sammy Glick, the slum boy who becomes Hollywood's archetypical heel...
...uncommonly well-written tale about the irregular but effective education of the most appealing little Southern girl since Carson McCullers' Frankie; and The Paratrooper of Mechanic Avenue, by Lester Goran, more growing pains but this time those of a less savory hero on the loose in a Pittsburgh slum...
...Sicily it doesn't matter about doing things well or badly. The sin which we Sicilians never forgive is simply that of 'doing' at all." Danilo Dolci, the erratic but militant Italian reformer who settled in Partinico and runs a series of private settlement houses for slum dwellers that have stirred Italy's conscience, believes that Sicily should import a team of U.S.-trained sociologists to study the roots of Sicily's distress so that economic aid might be made more effective. Most of Sicily's own spokesmen simply call for that standard 20th...
...What Makes Sammy Run (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A worthwhile repeat: the first half of Budd Schulberg's dramatized novel, with Larry Blyden as Sammy Glick, the slum boy who becomes Hollywood's archetypical heel...
...outs, said he, would be "a decent, logical, common-sense element of our own legal foundations, of our Constitution." Police in New York and Detroit, slum-ridden cities singled out by Lee, were aghast. Sit-outs, said Detroit's Police Commissioner Herbert W. Hart, would be treated "as flagrant violations of the law, and everyone participating would be arrested for obstructing traffic...