CINEMA

The Guns of Navarone. A superior cut of Hollywood baloney of the these-poor -devils -don't -have -a -chance variety, starring Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn.

Eve Wants to Sleep (in Polish). A zany cops-and-robbers farce whose cops are Keystone and whose badmen are clearly friends of Mack the Knife.

The Young Savages. Savage gang warfare in the tenement-glutted asphalt jungle, in which the street punks fare far better than the plot-laden squares.

Two Women (in Italian). Sophia Loren as a cunning, selfish, ferocious and sensuous mother and Eleonora Brown as her teen-aged daughter in a grim drama of World War II Italy.

Ashes and Diamonds (in Polish). A powerful morality piece on the politics of assassination in a postwar Poland not yet overrun by the Communists.

L'Avventura (in Italian). An interminable but fascinating study of the intolerable boredom that grips contemporary Rome's empty-souled profligates.

La Dolce Vita (in Italian). Federico Fellini's masterly travelogue through modern Rome's back alleys of spiritual depravity and sexual excess.

TELEVISION

Thurs., June 29

Summer Sports Spectacular (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).*Two top female golfers --Barbara Romack and Mickey Wright-- meet two top male golfers in a no-handicap struggle, conducted on a specially constructed, all par-three-hole course in Las Vegas.

At the Source (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). A new monthly interview series begins in the office of Secretary of State Dean Rusk.

Silents Please (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). The first of two parts of 1921's Orphans of the Storm, D. W. Griffith's tour de gloire of the French Revolution.

Fri., June 30

Person to Person (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). The program visits Actress Carol Burnett in Manhattan, German Actor Horst Buchholz at his home in Paris.

Sat., July 1

Wide World of Sports (ABC, 4:30-7 p.m.). A softball game from Florida, plus the National A.A.U. track meet in New York.

Sun., July 2

Frontiers of Faith (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.). The fifth segment of a discussion series on "The Press and the Clergy" considers the question: "Is the church competent to make business its business?"

Issues and Answers (ABC, 4:30-5 p.m.). Guest: the U.S. Information Agency's Edward R. Murrow.

The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). "Freedom for the Philippines" covers Philippine history from 1941-46, from Corregidor, Bataan and "I-shall-return" to the islands' Independence Day. Repeat.

Tues., July 4

Focus on America (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.). An archaeological tour of ancient Arizona, including a sort of person-to-person visit with prehistoric Cochise Man.

THEATER

On Broadway

DRAMA. The only survivors are the Pulitzer-prizewinning idyl, All the Way Home; A Far Country, more or less how young Dr. Freud discovered psychoanalysis in three easy sessions; The Best Man, Gore Vidal's breathless but depthless dramatization of electoral politics; and A Taste of Honey, which mixes tenderness and bitterness in a raffish setting. Plus last season's The Miracle Worker, superb even without the original cast.

COMEDY. Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary is not only funny but wise; lonesco's Rhinoceros is not only funny but provocative. Come Blow Your Horn is a long, often amusing, Jewish family joke. An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May, two people who may just possibly abolish boredom, can and should still be caught before the show closes this Saturday.

MUSICALS. Camelot has a far more engaging score than was at first conceded; with a splendid cast and sets, the troubled book is almost overcome. The most charming musical around remains Irma La Douce, the freshest Carnival!, and Bye Bye Birdie and Fiorello! are both unpretentiously funny. Do Re Mi has Phil Silvers, but book and music combine to make this a lot less entertaining than Bilko reruns. Donnybrook!, another one of those hopeful musicals that believe in the magic of the exclamation point, is a corny mixture of Irish sass and sentiment. As for Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music, it is so sweet it hurts, but it does have Mary Martin.

Off Broadway

Jean Genet's The Blacks, a savage allegory of racial antagonisms that range over the whole color spectrum, is the best bargain on the subway circuit. Genet's jaundiced view of life is also represented in The Balcony, in which the world is seen as the inside of a brothel. Rising Playwright Edward Albee has not yet gone the distance, but has built a considerable reputation on such hard-hitting one-acters as The American Dream and The Death of Bessie Smith, now playing on a dual bill. Also recommended: Anne Meacham as a superb Hedda Gabler, and Dylan Thomas' bawdy love poem to a Welsh village, Under Milk Wood.

BOOKS

Best Reading

The House on Coliseum Street, by Shirley Ann Grau. The emotional breakup of a young girl beset by a sordid family and a squalid love affair is told in the author's effective, indirect style, which proves that the shortest distance between fact and feeling is not necessarily a straight line.

My Father, Lloyd George, by Richard Lloyd George. The son of Britain's World War I Prime Minister shows in an excellent and well-balanced biography that his famed father was not only a great man but, on occasion, a humbug as well as a lecher on a grand scale.

The Dark and the Light, by Elio Vittorini. Two short novels, one about a young girl who preserves her innocence even as she turns prostitute and an old fraud who preserves her vitality even as she approaches death, add up to a fine study in contrasts.

Essays and Introductions, by William Butler Yeats. These are the thoughts of the early Yeats, the prophet of the Celtic Twilight. Here is the cult of beauty, the mystique of art as religion, and the strange notions that somehow fed the glories of his poetry.

Memed My Hawk, by Yashar Kemal. An appealing first novel from Turkey tells the story of an Anatolian village lad who grows up to be a modern Robin Hood.

Sumer: The Dawn of Art, by Andre Parrot. A handsome display of bookmaking devoted to some of the earliest art works fashioned by civilized man.

At Fever Pitch, by David Caute. For obvious reasons, British writers are tops when it conies to describing disintegrating empires, in this case, Africa.

The Brothers M, by Tom Stacey. Another novel of Africa, in which a black and a white student first tightrope-walk and later trip on the color line.

The Complete Poems of Cavafy, translated by Rae Dalven, and Poems, by George Seferis, translated by Rex Warner. The first book-length chance U.S. readers have had to become acquainted with the two greatest poets of 20th century Greece and with their timely and timeless sense of the past.

Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin, by George Kennan. There is grace and reflective melancholy in this highly informative chronicling of U.S.-Russian relations, 1917-45.

Best Sellers

( SQRT previously included in TIME'S choice of Best Reading)

FICTION

1. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (1)*

SQRT 2. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (2)

SQRT 3. A Burnt-Out Case, Greene (4)

SQRT 4. The Last of the Just, Schwarz-Bart (3)

SQRT 5. Winnie Ille Pu, Milne

6. Mila 18, Uris (7)

7. The Carpetbaggers, Robbins (10)

8. A Shooting Star, Stegner

9. Hawaii, Michener (9)

10. A Journey to Matecumbe, Taylor

NONFICTION

SQRT 1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (1)

SQRT 2. The New English Bible (3)

3. A Nation of Sheep, Lederer (2)

SQRT 4. Ring of Bright Water, Maxwell (4)

SQRT 5. Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin, Kennan (6)

6. My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House, Parks (5)

7. Japanese Inn, Statler Mirror,

8. Mirror on the Wall, Hauser (10)

9. Sketches from Life, Acheson

10. Reality in Advertising, Reeves (9)

*All times are E.D.T. *Position on last week's list.

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