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Whatever the performance he extracts from his psychiatric consultants, moist-eyed Mel Belli is sure to provide other actors in other parts. But if his past courtroom productions are a guide, Belli himself will play the leading role. He has appeared for the defense in more than 100 murder trials, has earned the title of "King of Torts" by his masterful presentation of medical evidence that has won his clients awards as high as $675,000 in personal injury cases. His chief strategy has been "demonstrative evidence"-graphic, often grisly visual aids-human skeletons, elaborate anatomical models, huge photographic blowups...
...Dallas Cowboys delayed the N.F.L. proceedings for 2½ hours, awaiting a doctor's report on Oregon Halfback Mel Renfro, who had cut his wrist on a mirror-and drafted Texas Tackle Scott Appleton instead. Coaches cackled happily when they landed a prospect that the opposition had overlooked. "I like this kid," said Green Bay's Vince Lombardi of his 14th-round choice, Northwestern End Tom O'Grady. "When you talk to him, his eyes light up. Besides, he's six-four, weighs 205 and runs...
...HALFBACKS: Mel Renfro, 22, Oregon, 6 ft., 195 lbs.; and Paul Warfield, 20, Ohio State, 6 ft., 178 lbs. "The days of the pony back are over," says one scout. "And by pony I mean everyone weighing much under 200 lbs. With these big defensive lines, you have to run big, fast bull elephants." Oregon's Renfro is just what the zoologist ordered. He runs the high hurdles, is a 9.7-sec. dash man, plows into tacklers "with reckless abandon and no regard for his personal safety." Ohio State's Warfield will have to put on pounds...
...HOPE'S THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Dana Wynter and Mel Ferrer star in a spy thriller about a Soviet agent's theft of top military secrets. Color...
...that an invitation to Wallace shows insensitivity to the feelings of Boston's Negro Community. To accept this assertion one must first assume that there is a monolithic Negro point of view. Members of the Civil Rights Co-ordinating Committee find Wallace's presence objectionable. On the other hand, Mel King, Negro candidate for School Committee, feels Wallace's speech might sharpen the contrast between freedom in the North and oppression in the South to the Negro's advantage...