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Jerome Weidman, who wrote Fiorello!, has written a courtroom play called The Ivory Tower about a poet like Ezra Pound who is tried for treason for making wartime broadcasts telling American troops to lay down their arms (November). Franchot Tone stars in Bicycle Ride to Nevada, an adaptation of Barnaby Conrad's novel Dangerfield, which deals with a Nobel prizewinner novelist who has slid down his 50s into alcoholism (Sept. 26). Conrad was once literary secretary to Sinclair Lewis. Edward Albee has adapted The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers' dark-visionary study of human grotesques...
Round Two. Nevada's Democratic Governor Grant Sawyer proposed to do away with embarrassing resolutions by the simple expedient of abolishing the resolutions committee. Sawyer's plan carried 33 to 16 on another party-line vote. Not a single Republican voted for the Sawyer plan, and only one Democrat (Alaska's William A. Egan) voted against it. "It has now been made clear," said Rockefeller, "that the Republican Party is the party of civil rights." Later on, Washington's Democratic Governor Albert Rosellini angrily accused Rocky of "using the grave issue of civil rights as ammunition...
Reckoning (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Drama set in the Air Force survival school in the Nevada desert, with Dane Clark...
...Canyon Project Act, authorizing the Hoover Dam system on the Colorado, Congress settled on water quotas for the states involved. Assuming the normal flow of the lower Colorado to be 7.5 million acre-feet per year *Congress assigned 4.4 million to California, 2.8 million to Arizona, 300,000 to Nevada. Any flow in excess of 7.5 million was to be divided equally between California and Arizona. The essential question was whether the 1928 formula applied only to the main stream of the river, as Arizona contended, or to the main stream plus the tributaries. as California claimed. California...
...fictitious residence in another state for a brief time, and the less opulent are given an example of avoiding our laws by those who can afford it. If New York State had a proper marriage and divorce code, neither Governor Rockefeller nor his first wife [who got a Nevada divorce on the ground of extreme mental cruelty] nor his present one [who got hers in Idaho for "grievous mental anguish"] would have had to acquiesce in a course of action which is at variance with the laws that, as Governor, he is required to execute...