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...emphasize the changing character of his regime, Premier George Papadopoulos last week granted his first interview in many months to a foreign newsman. Over cups of thick Turkish coffee in his wood-paneled office in Athens, Papadopoulos told TIME'S Wilton Wynn of his desire to reestablish parliamentary government in Greece, reaffirmed his allegiance to King Constantine and declared his own willingness to step down from power. Self-confident and relaxed, the Premier avoided any reference to the seamier side of his army-backed regime, which still holds 1,800 Greeks in prison camps in the Aegean islands...
COVERING the Vatican," says Rome Correspondent Wilton Wynn, "is a challenge. Almost never is it possible to go to an official source, to ask a straight question and get a straight answer. You have to find sources you can trust, and then you have to convince the sources that they can trust...
...Wynn and his Rome colleague John Shaw have been so successful in building that mutual trust that TIME was able to report the contents of Pope Paul's encyclical, Humanae Vitae, last July in advance of its official publication. For this week's cover story on the storm of Catholic dissent stirred up by that encyclical, Shaw and Wynn found their sources still available-and even more cautious. Rarely was either man able to conduct an interview across a desk in a Vatican office. Shaw found himself taking soggy notes as he conversed with a theologian in swimming...
...cullud folks are jes a-sittin' and a-singin' and a-waitin' for somethin' to happen. Nothin' does. A leprechaun (Tommy Steele) wanders in, a lot of galvanic twitching goes on in the name of choreography, and eventually a white-supremacist Senator (Keenan Wynn) gets changed into a Negro. At the end, when everybody joins hands to shout out the coda, it is clear that this classic stage musical has wrinkled into senility. Perhaps, like the inhabitants of Shangri-La, it was condemned to instant old age the minute it left its proper environment...
WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC. 9-11 p.m.).* Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964). Stanley Kubrick's outrageously wild but sobering satire about nuclear war. Starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn and Slim Pickens...