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Winston Churchill-The Valiant Years (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). The old warrior's farewell, in the last chapter of a generally excellent series...
...statues with hands clasped in prayer, their huge, vacant eyes staring heavenward as if they themselves were in a trance. When it came to worship, all distinctions between rich and poor vanished, and the civilization was getting old before the individual presumed to proclaim himself. Even the greatest warrior hero, Sargon, left no known portrait behind him, and all the grand viziers of Sumer were made to look almost exactly alike...
Above all things-perhaps even above the great goddess of fire herself-the Scythians adored decoration and adornment, and from this came their one important legacy. Even their arrows, though likely to be lost after one shot, bore intricate designs. No great warrior's belt or horse's harness lacked gold plaques. Being nomads, the Scythians found their outlet not in statues or cities but in things that could be worn. Whatever talent might have poured into architecture or grand statuary went into the molding of sculptures of gold...
...known throughout the union as "King Kong." A hero until his death four years ago, he has since become something of an African god. He would clobber his challengers in the ring and later pulp them for good measure in the street outside. Braggart as well as warrior, he let his crown slide, ended up as a dance-hall bouncer who jealously murdered his mistress. Begging for capital punishment, he was given twelve years at hard labor and drowned himself by a prison...
...Right to Work. For young Terry Bryant, coming home from World War II, the battles of Blackie Bowman are won and done. Labor is not a cause but a kind of male club, possibly even a career. As the happy warrior of a rubber-factory local, Terry rises to shop steward only to discover that his union is run by and for a pair of labor racketeers called the Slansky brothers. Obscenely jeered and jabbed at by the younger Slansky, Terry slugs his tormentor. In seeming collusion with the Slanskys, management promptly fires Terry. Digging up his combat-fatigue history...