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Anthony Schaffer's Tony Award-winning play is currently Broadway's longest run. The film, with screenplay by Schaffer, has played in other cities for almost two months. So many people have seen Sleuth that a lot more people know its secrets. But the best points of the film are not the disclosures of its tricks--which may or may not deceive you--but the perceptively witty caricatures of the writer and of Inspector Doppler, the detective who makes a late night investigation at Wyke's estate...
SUNDAY: The Longest Day. Literally, a cast of thousands peoples this epic recreation of D-Day, June 6, 1944, directed by Darryl F. Zanuck. CH. 5. 9 p.m. Color. 2 hrs. Concludes Mon. same time...
...ending of the longest war in U.S. history, with its bitter sacrifice of lives and money, undoubtedly deserved more of a tribute. But the American public was obviously in no mood to celebrate. Peace had been promised so often that even now some people were not sure that it had really come, or would last. Others had been so emotionally numbed by the war that they found it hard to react at all. There would be no heroic memories to cherish?no Valley Forge, no San Juan Hill. And not many heroes either. As the nation last week observed...
...risking an encounter with angry youths chanting, "Hey, hey, L.B.J., how many kids did you kill today?" Yet, as the funeral service ended last week, small groups of young people came forward seeking the autograph of Dean Rusk. The incident suggested that the bitterness of the nation's longest war was just beginning to fade, and as President Nixon said in announcing the ceasefire: "No one would have welcomed this peace more than...
Then Nixon was sworn in (his wife held the family Bibles open to Isaiah's "They shall beat their swords into plowshares" passage) and delivered his address. After declaring that an end was coming to "America's longest and most difficult war," and decrying the "condescending policies of paternalism," Nixon spoke to another theme with which he (and we) had grown familiar...