Fate of a Man (in Russian). Sergei Bondarchuk, one of the most noted Soviet film makers, directs his own powerful performance in this freely sentimental story of a soldier who is reduced to flotsam by war, then made whole again by the love of an orphan boy.
Misty. Good fun for the slingshot set: the story of two children who plot to buy a wild pony.
The Parent Trap. Cute, 13-year-old identical twins (Hayley Mills, in both cases) who have been separated since birth connive to rehitch their divorced parents, with results that are surprisingly entertaining.
Secrets of Women (in Swedish). Ingmar Bergman's first comedy; he sneers with mortal effect at the satisfied husbands of four dissatisfied wives.
The Guns of Navarone. Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn shoot it up rousingly in this World War II thriller, and no one will mind that after the fourth or fifth dustup it is obvious that the jaws of death have rubber teeth.
TELEVISION
Wed., Aug. 2
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Tonight's story concerns black-market babies and the crooks who act as liaison between unmarried mothers and childless couples, sometimes reportedly charging as much as $10,000 an infant.
Repeat.
Thurs., Aug. 3
Summer Sports Spectacular (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A taped report on amateur roller skating championships at Fort Worth.
Silents Please (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Episodes from the slapstick films of Mack Sennett.
Fri., Aug 4
The Troubled Land (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). A documentary on the peasant population of northeastern Brazil. Repeat.
Football (ABC, from 10 p.m.). From Soldier's Field in Chicago, a team of professional all-stars takes on the 1960 Champion Philadelphia Eagles.
Person to Person (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). The show visits the homes of Actresses-Singers Connie Francis and Jane Powell.
Sat., Aug. 5
The Nation's Future (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Arthur Dean, U.S. negotiator at the Geneva nuclear-tests conference, discusses the test-ban talks.
Sun., Aug. 6
Issues and Answers (ABC, 4:30-5 p.m.). Republican Senators Barry Goldwater and Jacob Javits continue their running debate over the future of the G.O.P.
Accent (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). French Motion Picture Director Jean Renoir takes viewers to Paris' Jeu de Paume, discusses the impressionist canvases of his father as well as Cezanne, Van Gogh, et al.
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). The battle for Tarawa. Repeat.
Tues., Aug. 8
Focus on America (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.). Clipper Ships and Paddle Wheels traces the early history of San Francisco Bay.
Purex Special for Women (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The problems of The Working Mother. Color. Repeat.
THEATER
Straw Hat
Whitefield, N.H., Chase Barn Playhouse: The stage version of Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel.
Beverly, Mass., North Shore Music Theater: Can-Can, with Lilo as La Mome Pistache, the role she created on Broadway.
Boston, Arts Center Theater: Anatol, a new musical from the Arthur Schnitzler play, with Jean Pierre Aumont and wife Marisa Pavan.
Framingham, Mass., Carousel Theater: An Evening with Danny Kaye.
Stratford, Conn, American Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It, Macbeth, and Troilus and Cressida.
New York City, Central Park: Joseph Papp's excellent Shakespeare Festival with A Midsummer Night's Dream.
East Hampton, N.Y., John Drew Theater: The famed Eugene lonesco duo, The Chairs and The Bald Soprano.
Ardentown, Del., Robin Hood Theater: Lillian Hellman's classic The Little Foxes.
Olney, Md., Olney Theater: Christopher Fry's A Phoenix Too Frequent and Jean Anouilh's Cecile or The School for Fathers.
Yellow Springs, Ohio, Antioch College Area Amphitheater: Moliere's The Doctor in Spite of Himself.
Hillside, Ill., Melody Top Theater: Anything Goes, with Phil Ford and Mimi Mines.
Hinsdale, Ill., Salt Creek Playhouse: The Teahouse of the August Moon, with Comedian Jack Douglas and his Japanese wife, Reiko.
Beloit, Wis., Court Theater: The Gilded Clock, a modern Alcestis by Ronald Elwy Mitchell, professor of speech and drama at the University of Wisconsin.
Grand Ledge, Mich., Ledges Playhouse: Edward Everett Horton in Harvey.
Monterey, Calif., Wharf Theater and Opera House: A Curious Evening with Gypsy Rose Lee.
Seattle, Penthouse Theater: University of Washington production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie.
Ashland, Ore., Shakespeare Festival: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, All's Well That Ends Well, and Henry IV, Part I.
Stratford, Ont., Stratford Festival: Coriolanus, Henry VIII, and Love's Labour's Lost alternating with The Pirates of Penzance.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Household Ghosts, by James Kennaway. An adulterous and neurotic triangle--young wife, indifferent husband, destructive and cynical lover--delineated with a superbly controlled mixture of humor and sadness.
Jimmy Riddle, by Ian Brook. "Who clipped the lion's wings?" asked T. S. Eliot. In this satirical novel about the decline of the British Empire in Africa, a former colonial official answers the question with a masterful spoof.
The Making of the President 1960, by Theodore H. White. An excellent journalistic re-creation of one of the most fascinating campaigns in history.
The Death of Tragedy, by George Steiner. A distinguished critic examines the question of why real tragedy seems impossible today, and how that condition came about.
The Spanish Civil War, by Hugh Thomas. The best, least-partisan history of the desperate conflict.
The Faces of Justice, by Sybille Bedford. A sort of Baedeker of the European courtrooms by a novelist (The Legacy) and writer of extraordinary insight, who shows how, in various countries, man treats man in the grip of the law.
Nobody Knows My Name, by James Baldwin. The author, who describes himself as an "ambitious, abnormally intelligent, and hungry black cat," rakes his stylish claws over some of his--and the white man's--color problems.
Essays and Introductions, by William Butler Yeats. As a thinker, Yeats had his crotchets, including a belief in ghosts, fairies, and table rapping, but his holy trinity was Ireland, beauty and poetry, and no priest ever served his faith better.
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, soft-focus style.
Memed My Hawk, by Yashar Kemal. An appealing Turkish first novel tells the story of an Anatolian village lad who grows up to be a modern Robin Hood.
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)
3. The Winter of Our Discontent, Steinbeck (4)
4. Mila 18, Uris (3)
5. Tropic of Cancer, Miller (7)
6. The Edge of Sadness, O'Connor (5)
7. The Carpetbaggers, Robbins (6)
8. Mothers and Daughters, Hunter
9. A Shooting Star, Stegner (9)
SQRT 10. A Burnt-Out Case, Greene
NONFICTION
SQRT 1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (1)
2. A Nation of Sheep, Lederer (2)
SQRT 3. The Making of the President 1960, White (6)
SQRT 4. The New English Bible (4)
SQRT 5. Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin, Kennan (3)
SQRT 6. Ring of Bright Water, Maxwell (5)
7. Firsthand Report, Adams (8)
8. My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House, Parks (7)
9. Inside Europe Today, Gunther (9)
SQRT 10. Nobody Knows My Name, Baldwin
* All times E.D.T. *Position on last week's list.
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