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...behind the purdah of colored glasses, gray muffler, and hotel towel anchored Arab-style by a pillbox chapeau. But the imperious stare, the twitching extremities and the spindly silhouette of Bob Dylan, 32, belied the Bedouin disguise. The erstwhile revolutionary folkie, rock-'n 'roll innovator and countrified cop-out was back after an eight-year absence from concert touring. Perched atop a hotel couch in Philadelphia (the second of 21 cities in his current six-week tour), Dylan was solidly re-ensconced as the reigning song-poet laureate of young America...
...Franco chose more-perhaps much more-of the rigid policies that have governed the country since its Civil War. The new President will be Carlos Arias Navarro, 65, who was Spain's top cop as head of the Dirección General de Seguridad, the national security police, from 1957 to 1965. After that he became mayor of Madrid and last June he was made Interior Minister, in charge of state security, in Carrero Blanco's Cabinet. A harsh advocate of law-and-order, he has a wide following among the ultra-right wing, which criticized even...
Still, The Seven-Ups is by far the best of the current blotter of cop movies. It deals more directly than any, including Serpico (TIME, Dec. 31), with the criminal pathology of some police men. Roy Scheider, the leader of the Seven-Ups (and Gene Hackman's part ner in The French Connection), has just the right grave, anonymous face for the part, the right quality of eruptive violence. There are no heroes here. The movie has been made with the dogged intensity that cops can bring to their work, which explains why you have a feeling of having...
...played by the movies' perennial heavy, Aristotle ("Telly") Savalas every Wednesday night at 10, this street-smart tough yegg also has a soft and thoughtful center. He wears vests, and sucks lollipops in an attempt to give up cigars. The combination makes for one of the more intriguing cop characters on TV. It has also made the show built around the character, CBS'S Kojak, the first new program of the season to crack the top ten in the Nielsen audience ratings...
MOST ENGAGING CHARACTERIZATION: Peter Falk's rumpled, resourceful Columbo (NBC), which freshened the overworked cop-and-crime formula...