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Roughly speaking, the story is about a civic committee led by a master crook which is trying to bring about "progress." A mansion peopled by a trio of spinsters with highly suspect hobbies stands in the way of progress, and must, of course, be removed...
...Tortoise and the Hare," the first story, is not really a fable. Fables are supposed to have morals, but this little flesh flick does not--at least not in the parietal hours sense. It was included in the trio for the sake of the "Coming Attractions," and for those viewers who enjoy watching seminude women. Although the imbecilic plot was meant to be bittersweet, women's leagues will probably call it tasteless, since it has the camera constantly leering at Sylvia Koscina in a blouse slit to the waist...
...failures in spite of generally good performances and the direction of Peter Wood. The Private Ear fails because it is a blatantly uninteresting and unfunny play. The Public Eye fails, though less completely, because it bungles its chance to exploit an amusing situation and a potentially fascinating trio of characters...
...Anglo-French committee of government transport experts endorsed a plan to connect Dover and Calais by means of a 32-mile, $407 million railroad tunnel. The committee found either of two approaches feasible: a brace of segmented "immersed tubes" that would run across the channel floor, or a trio of cross-connected tunnels bored through the soft lower chalk layer 160 feet beneath the bottom...
Rare Peek. Some complaints persist, though, and some are legitimate. The overseas jazz audience could support far more than one group a year, and the program has yet to choose a modern jazz trio or quartet that would interest aficionados educated by the Voice of America's excellent jazz program. The only opera company that has ever been sent abroad is the Santa Fe Opera, which was triumphant in Berlin and Belgrade two years ago with Douglas Moore's Ballad of Baby Doe-a rare and rewarding peek at the best of American opera...