Wednesday, June 26

ABC WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.).* Sophia Loren, Maximilian Schell and Fredric March in Jean-Paul Sartre's The Condemned of Altonu (1963).

THE CITIES (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "To Build the Future," concluding segment of a three-part series on America's decaying urban centers, weighs two urbanological alternatives--renewing existing cities or building entirely new ones on unused land --and discusses problems and promises inherent in each. Walter Cronkite reports.

Thursday, June 27

TIME FOR AMERICANS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "Bias and the Media, Part 1," an examination of racism in communications, is the starting point for this series based on the proposition that 'nice' America is indeed racist, North and South, black and white. Singers Harry Belafonte and Lena Home, Writer Lawrence Neal and Psychiatrist Dr. Alvin Poussaint discuss the problems.

Friday, June 28

COACHES ALL-AMERICA FOOTBALL GAME (ABC, 8:30-11:30 p.m.). Top 60 college seniors of the 1967 season compete (East against West) on the Atlanta Stadium gridiron.

Saturday. June 29

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Six British mountaineers top the Old Man of Hoy, a windswept. 450-ft. sandstone pinnacle in the Orkney Islands of Scotland.

Sunday. June 30

DISCOVERY '68 (ABC. ll:30-noon). The French influence is visible, audible and edible throughout this study of "Cajun Country" in southern Louisiana.

VIA UPPSALA (NBC, 1:30-2:30 p.m.). Secretary-General of the World Council of Churches Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, in conversation with Edwin Newman, previews the Fourth Assembly of the Council, which will take place in Uppsala, Sweden, July 4 through 19.

THE 215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The reality of "spare-parts surgery"-transplantation of vital organs today and the prospect that every part of the body may be replaceable tomorrow--dominates this discussion of a future "ManMade Man." Repeat.

Monday, July 1

PREMIERE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Call to Danger." first play in this summer dramatic anthology replacing The Carol Burnett Show, stars CBS Regular Peter Graves (Mission: Impossible) and James Gregory as Government agents assigned to recover the stolen master plates for the U.S. $10 bill.

Tuesday, July 2

OF BLACK AMERICA (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Bill Cosby guides viewers through a jungle of black and white attitudes in "Black History: Lost, Stolen or Strayed," opening chapter of a series portraying the evolution of the Negro American from his roots in Africa through the American Revolution, in and out of slavery, to the present day.

Check local listings for date and time of these NET programs:

NET PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). "Thirteen Against Fate: The Widower," another in this package of 13 BBC-produced plays based on Georges Simenon mysteries, dwells on a wife's suicide and a husband's selfdelusion.

NET FESTIVAL. In "The Five Faces of Jazz, Newport 1967," Host Herbie Mann traces the origin of Middle and Near Eastern music with the help of his quintet, then turns the stage over to African Drummer Olatunji, Brazilian Guitarist Luis Henrique and Hungarian Guitarist Gabor Szabo--all demonstrating the form's roots and reverberations in other musical cultures.

THEATER

For those in a theatergoing mood, Manhattan offers good holdovers of seasons past while special summer events are being performed in limited runs.

THE NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL brings the Bard to Central Park. Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, plays alternate evenings through Aug. 2. Artistic Director Gerald Freedman guides Stacy Keach as the incorrigible Falstaff and Sam Waterston as the slumming Prince Hal. Then Romeo and Juliet moves into the Delacorte Theater on Aug. 7, with Martin Sheen and Susan MacArthur in the title roles.

THEATRE DE LA CITE. Roger Planchon directs one of the leading companies of France during its visit to the Vivian Beaumont Theater for the Lincoln Center Festival '68. Dumas Pere's The Three Musketeers and two Moliere classics, George Dandin and Tartuffe, will be playing through July 14.

ATELJE 212, the experimental studio company of Belgrade, is the second troupe in the Lincoln Center Festival. Under the direction of Mira Trailovic, the Yugoslavs will present four plays in Serbo-Croatian, with earphones providing instant English translation. Aleksandar Popovic's Bora, the Tailor, Alfred Jarry's King Ubu, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and Roger Vitrac's Victor or the Children Take Over will run in repertory in the Forum Theater through July 14.

RECORDS

Instrumental & Electronic

PIERRE HENRY: LE VOYAGE (Mercury). Old-fashioned program music played by newfangled electronic means--and what a program. Following the text of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the work details the experiences of a dying man from his last breath on earth to his first breath as a reincarnated spirit. The eerie chirps and breathy gurgles are as disembodied as sound can be. A graduate of the Paris Conservatory, Henry once composed for conventional instruments, but found that the sonorities in his head required new outlets; he has since made his name with his new sound mixes.

ALBERTO GINASTERA: CONCERTO FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA (RCA Victor). The violent and voluptuous new opera Bomarzo (TIME, May 26, 1967) demonstrates that Argentina's Ginastera does not let such modern disciplines as serial technique stand in the way of red-blooded musical drama. His concerto is full of mellow drama as well--racing scales, rushing rhythms and suspenseful pauses, after which, sometimes, nothing much follows. Nevertheless, orchestral color is beautifully provided by the Boston Symphony under Erich Leinsdorf, and flashy keyboard fireworks are brilliantly set off by the young Brazilian pianist Joao Carlos Martins.

JOAQUIN TURINA: PIANO MUSIC (Epic). After a stint in Paris, Turina in 1907 turned to his native Andalusian songs and dances as musical inspiration. He did not transcribe them literally, but filtered them into short sequences marked by a muted gaiety. Barcelona-born Virtuosa Alicia de Larrocha, who has brought so much Spanish piano music out of the closet for her successful U.S. tours and earlier recordings, lovingly colors and polishes her Turinas (Danzas Fantasticas, Sanlucar de Barrameda).

JOHN EATON: MICROTONAL FANTASY (Decca). For a piece requiring intervals smaller than the half tone, the piano would seem unsuitable. But two pianos can do it. Composer Eaton tuned them a quarter of a tone apart and placed them at a right angle to each other. Seated in the corner between them, he plays this desultory and dissonant reverie. The result is tingly and agreeable compared with the effect of his works for the Syn-Ket, the electronic instrument that can be played "live" in the concert hall (TIME, May 24). The Syn-Ket compositions recorded here with the Fantasy are marred by all too many blips, bleeps and squeaks.

JOAQUIN RODRIGO: FANTASIA PARA UN GENTILHOMBRE (Columbia). The blind Spanish composer wrote this fantasy for guitar and chamber orchestra in 1954, but it harks back 300 years in mood and melody, since it is a new setting for five old Spanish dance tunes. John Williams, the 27-year-old Australian who was anointed "Prince of the Guitar" by his early teacher, Segovia, plays with nostalgic elegance, producing smoothly connected phrases in dances like the Villano and striking, swiftly plucked cross rhythms in the Hatchet Dance.

CINEMA

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. In a chilling study of the metaphysical implications of space travel, Director Stanley Kubrick deploys the most dazzling visual happenings and technical achievements in the history of the motion picture.

PETULIA. The city of San Francisco is clearly the star of this whimsical, sometimes bitter Richard Lester film about the switched-on love affair of a middle-aged doctor (George C. Scott) and a kooky young wife (Julie Christie).

LES CARABINIERS. Blending some documentary footage with his own, not altogether somber, view of war Director Jean-Luc Godard comes up with an artful portrait of man in combat that may be his best film since Breathless.

THE FIFTH HORSEMAN IS FEAR. The horror of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia is starkly rendered in this symbolic film written and directed by Zbynek Brynych.

BELLE DE JOUR. Aging but still arch, Spanish Director Luis Bunuel has filled this piece of baroque pornography about the obsessive fantasies of a young housewife (Catherine Deneuve) with some of his most mordant jokes and anticlerical broadsides.

THE ODD COUPLE. Neil Simon's Broadway hit about an alimony-poor sportswriter (Walter Matthau) and his divorce-bound buddy (Jack Lemmon) is transferred to the screen virtually intact, although Actor Matthau's comic genius more than compensates for the static mise en scene.

BOOKS

Best Reading

THE RIGHT PEOPLE, by Stephen Birmingham. A gossipy, often malicious examination of haul monde that brings the wellborn and well-climbed down to earth with a clatter.

THE MONEY GAME, by 'Adam Smith,' ne George Goodman. The stock market and all its auric mysteries are explained with antic hilarity by a seasoned observer.

ENDERBY, by Anthony Burgess. A jaunty account of the taming of a poet, demonstrating with scurrilous charm that an artist is a man who expresses for all men their unbuttoned true selves.

TRUE GRIT, by Charles Portis. High camp comes artfully close to original Americana in this yarn of a sassy 14-year-old Arkansan heroine who avenges her daddy's murder back in the 1870s.

TOWARD A DEMOCRATIC LEFT, by Michael Harrington. The political evangelist who roused the conscience of the U.S. on behalf of the poor (The Other America) now turns to proposals for reshaping American political and economic life through the creation of a new party imbued with social concern.

THE ARMIES OF THE NIGHT, by Norman Mailer. With unabashed language and unblushing candor, the author delineates his own mock-heroic role during last fall's peace assault on the Pentagon.

LYTTON STRACHEY, by Michael Holroyd. The madly eccentric life and odd times of the author of Eminent Victorians, overwhelmingly documented in 1,229 improbably fascinating pages.

COUPLES, by John Updike. One of America's most stylish novelists turns his lyric imagination loose on adultery and the search for salvation in a richly plotted story set in a New England small town.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. Couples, Updike (2 last week)

2. Airport, Hailey (1)

3. Topaz, Uris (4)

4. Testimony of Two Men, Caldwell (5)

5. Myra Breckinridge, Vidal (3)

6. Vanished, Knebel (6)

7. Tune, Durrell (8)

8. The Confessions of Nat Turner, Styron (7)

9. Christy, Marshall (9)

10. The Triumph, Galbraith

NONFICTION

1. Between Parent and Child, Ginott (1)

2. The Naked Ape, Morris (3)

3. Iberia, Michener (2)

4. The Right People, Birmingham (4)

5. The Money Game, 'Adam Smith'

6. The Double Helix, Watson (8)

7. Or I'll Dress You in Mourning, Collins and Lapierre

8. Nicholas and Alexandra, Massie (9)

9. Our Crowd, Birmingham (5)

10. The French Chef Cookbook, Child (7)

-All times E.D.T.

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