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...victims. But Hickock and Smith are pathetic examples of the banality of evil. With innumerable chances to es cape capture, they start a spree of flamboyant check bouncing and petty thievery that keep them constantly on the road, from Mexico to Las Vegas to Kansas City, where the police dragnet pulls them in. In their luggage are the two pairs of boots that wallowed through the Clutters' blood...
...Mikis Theodorakis, 42, the composer best known for his scores for Zorba the Greek and Phaedra. An avowed Communist and leader of the Red-fronting Lambrakis youth movement, Theodorakis eluded the dragnet that rounded up 6,500 Communists in the early hours of the April 21 coup. The sound of his music bugged the junta, and after Theodorakis was finally nabbed last month, Athens buzzed with reports that the police had tortured or even killed him. Last week the junta put their prisoner on display for foreign newsmen. "I have to tell you two things," said Theodorakis, who was dressed...
Similar scenes were played all over Cairo last week. At Nasser's orders, military police scoured the city, arrested more than 100 colonels and generals suspected of discontent. The dragnet also picked up the former War Minister, the former director of military prisons, four parliamentary Deputies and the government information chief. No hard evidence was offered to suggest that the arrested officials were actually plotting to overthrow the government...
...improving; but regularly scheduled programs are still as vapid as ever. Mindless game shows and cheery-teary soapers dominate daytime television. Prime-time TV (7:30-11 p.m.) is hardly more satisfactory. The top-rated Nielsen shows for 1966-67 are either tired adventure series such as Bonanza and Dragnet or low-IQ sitch-coms on the order of Beverly Hillbillies and Bewitched. The only steady programs that offer the hope of entertainment are Old Standbys Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason, Ed Sullivan and Dean Martin-and movies, for which TV can claim no creative proprietorship. The only spice...
Creator of the campaign is Hollywood Humorist Stan Freberg, best known for his takeoffs on Dragnet and his Madison Avenue musings on behalf of Chun King chow mein and the United Presbyterian Church ("The blessings you lose may be your own"). Besides newspaper layouts, Freberg's program includes patter from stewardesses (on landing: "We made it! How about that?"). It also features hot-pink lunch pails which are distributed to passengers and contain such items as a handkerchief-size child's security blanket, which the stewardess demonstrates by rubbing it against her cheek. Freberg plans to paint...