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...consider the conflict that forms the basis for Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker's new film, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice: Who is right? Liberated Bob and Carol or conventional Ted and Alice? Need I tell you? (Hint: This movie was made in Hollywood, of and by and for Americans...
...unions paraded before the committee to attack Judge Haynsworth's record on integration and labor-management cases. William Pollock, general president of the Textile Workers Union of America, said that Haynsworth was part of a "conspiracy." The aim, said Pollock, was to limit the rights of workers. Samuel Tucker of the N.A.A.C.P. blasted Haynsworth's "persistent hostility" to the Constitution's promise of racial equality. Eight of the House of Representatives' nine Negro members endorsed a statement opposing confirmation. They said it would "unequivocally tell black people that the one significant route for peaceful resolution...
...Carol & Ted & Alice is a sniggering Hollywood send-up of infidelity, wife-swapping and other variations on the theme of modern marriage. For Writers Paul Mazursky (who also directed) and Larry Tucker (who produced), satire is more often a matter of condescension than wit. These swimming-pool Swifts smugly mock a situation that they simultaneously exploit. Bob (Robert Gulp) is a documentary-film maker who, after telling his wife Carol (Natalie Wood) that he has had a casual affair with another woman, listens with surprised gratification as she begs, "Let me hear about it again. I feel closer...
...quagmire of the West Side Tennis Club at Forest Hills, N.Y. Playing his distinctively cool, calculating game, he overwhelmed another Australian, Tony Roche, 7-9, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2, to win the U.S. Open championship and thereby stash an unprecedented second grand slam into his tucker bag. His victory earned him $16,000 in prize money and brought his winnings for the year to $106,030. He became the only tennis pro ever to win more than $100,000 in a single season...
...TUCKER'S COUNTRYSID:, by George Selden, illustrated by Garth Williams (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $3.95). In a sequel to The Cricket in Times Square, a citified cat and mouse visit a cricket and help him contend with dogs, bulldozers and other scourges of the countryside. The black and white illustrations are Garth Williams at his best...