Wednesday, July 9

SPECTRUM (NET. 8-8:30 p.m.)* "Flying at the Bottom of the Sea" is a journey to the floor of the Atlantic Ocean in Alvin, the Navy's minisub designed for deep-sea probes.

Thursday, July 10

NET PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-9:30 p.m.). Irene Dailey stars in Megan Terry's drama Home, which is an elevator-size room where nine people live. They were born there, and will be forced to spend their lives there because of overpopulation in a gloomy futuristic world.

Saturday, July 12

BRITISH OPEN (ABC, 10:30 a.m.-noon). The final round, carried live via satellite from the Royal Lytham and St. Annes Golf Club in St. Annes on Sea. Lancashire, England.

WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). International Invitational Swimming and Diving championships from Santa Clara, Calif.

Sunday, July 13

DIRECTIONS (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Frank Reynolds moderates a panel discussion on the influence of mass media. The panel members are Roy Danish, Burns Roper, Bishop J. J. Dougherty and Dr. Alvin Poussaint.

A.A.U. INTERNATIONAL TRACK AND FIELD MEET (CBS, 3:30-4:30 p.m.). Taped highlights of the Hawaiian Invitational from Honolulu.

SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). "Black Mood on Campus" as it appears to faculty members and students from several headline-making colleges and universities around the country.

SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC. 9-11 p.m.). Peter Sellers, George C. Scott and Sterling Hayden deal with the Bomb in Dr. Strungelove (1964).

Monday, July 14

NET JOURNAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). The economic and social reconstruction of Germany after emerging from the ruins of World War II as seen through the eyes of her people.

MONDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:30 p.m.). Billy Wilder's masterpiece Some Like It Hot (1959), with Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Pat O'Brien and Joe E. Brown.

Tuesday, July 15

NBC NEWS SPECIAL (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Frank McGee narrates a history of man's space accomplishments and a preview of the Apollo 11 mission. CBS previews the moon shot from 10-11 p.m.

THE LIBERACE SHOW (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). The Candelabra Kid lights up the first show of his summer series with Guest Stars Jack Benny, the Bachelors, Rolf Harris and Susan Maughan.

NET FESTIVAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). "The Chicago Picasso: Greatness in the Making" is "a documentary on the conception and construction of Picasso's great outdoor sculpture.

THEATER

Worn not at all by time or constant airing, Shakespeare doth bestride the summered continent like a colossus:

AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Stratford, Conn, (through Sept. 14). The comedy Much Ado About Nothing is directed by London's Peter Gill in his American debut; Henry V has Len Cariou in the title role; while Hamlet is a stunning full-length version with Brian Bedford as the prince, Maria Tucci as Ophelia and Morris Carnovsky as Polonius. For variety, Chekhov makes a premier appearance at this festival in a supple staging of The Three Sisters.

STRATFORD SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Stratford, Ont. (through Oct. 11). The tortured prince, played by Kenneth Welsh, visits his laments upon Canadian audiences; and to brighten things a bit. Measure for Measure metes out the laughter. Moliere's Tartuffe and Ben Jonson's The Alchemist alternate with them. On the Avon Theater's proscenium stage at Downie Street, the offering for July is Satyricon, an original burlesque by Tom Hendry, based on the writings of Petronius, with music by Stanley Silverman; and for August, Peter Luke's Hadrian VII.

CHAMPLAIN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, University of Vermont Arena Theater, Burlington (July 22-Aug. 30). The professional repertory group will present The Winter's Tale, Othello and Richard III.

SHAKESPEARE SUMMER FESTIVAL, Washington, B.C. (July 9-Aug. 24). A modern rock musical version of As You Like It will be performed outdoors at the Sylvan Theater on the grounds of the Washington Monument.

GREAT LAKES SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Lakewood Civic Auditorium, Lakewood, Ohio. Here a more traditional As You Like It features Maria Lennard, formerly of the Bristol Old Vic company, as Rosalind (July 9-15); Macbeth and his extremely active wife are played by Britishers Stephen Scott and Maureen Harley (July 17-27); and Troilus and Cressida stars Scott as Hector (Aug. 14-Sept. 11). A Shavian touch is added by Candida with Celeste Holm and Wesley Addy (July 31-Aug. 23).

MINNESOTA THEATER COMPANY, Tyrone Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis (through Sept. 17). The company will include Julius Caesar in its repertory, giving Director Edward Payson Call a chance to transform Shakespeare's play into a universal parable of the perils of leadership, as Rome becomes a metaphor for an existing political and climatic hot spot (possibly Latin America). Robert Pastene plays Caesar, Allen Hamilton betrays him, and Charles Keating buries him.

COLORADO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Mary Rippon Theater, Boulder (Aug. 1-17). Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew and Henry VI (Part 3).

NATIONAL SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL GROUP, Old Globe Theater, San Diego (through Sept. 14). Macbeth with Richard Easton and Sada Thompson, Julius Caesar with Tom Toner and The Comedy of Errors with Christopher Walken and Laurence Guittard as the Antipholus twins share the summer months.

CALIFORNIA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Los Gatos (through Sept. 28). Twelfth Night, Richard III, A Midsummer Night's Dream and King Lear are the choices.

MARIN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, San Rafael (July 17-Sept. 27). Offerings are A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard II and The Two Gentlemen of Verona, played Thursdays through Saturdays.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY, New Zellerbach Auditorium (July 8-13). Tony Richardson's production of Hamlet stars Nicol Williamson.

OREGON SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL, Ashland (July 19-Sept. 7). The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night and King John are the varied fare of the Elizabethan theater's 29th season. Virtue in Danger, an updated romantic musical escapade revived from the 17th century by Screenwriter-Lyricist Paul Dehn and Composer James Bernard, will serve as the matinee, a light after-lunch petite farce.

CINEMA

TRUE GRIT. John Wayne, 62, gallops off into his sunset years as "Rooster Cogburn a one-eyed federal marshal with an discriminate passion for justice, bullets and booze. The rest of the cast are only props to support the Duke in his best performance in a decade.

RING OF BRIGHT WATER and MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN. Ring tells the story of a London accountant and his pet otter; Mountain is about a Canadian youth who leaves his home for the mountains. Both films,are worth leaving home for an evening's entertainment.

WINNING. The husband-and-wife team of Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman has to struggle with a one-cylinder plot. But the tale of marital infidelity--set against the background of auto racing --sputters to life in occasional scenes.

MIDNIGHT COWBOY. Under the direction of John Schlesinger, Jon Voight, as a Texas drifter, and Dustin Hoffman, as a Bronx loner, make a genuinely moving picture out of one of the least likely and most melancholy love stories in the history of American film.

LAUGHTER IN THE DARK. Nicol Williamson gives a powerful performance as a wealthy blind Englishman who is obsessed by a lustful usherette (Anna Karina). The script and Tony Richardson's direction are as blackly comic as the Nabokov novel from which the film was adapted.

POPI. A Puerto Rican widower (Alan Arkin) struggles to get his two sons out of el barrio, the New York ghetto. The film is comic, bright and, now and then, powerfully angry.

THE WILD BUNCH is Director Sam Peckinpah's way of telling the truth while preserving the legend of the West. His bandits, led by William Holden, are drawn by their own peculiar code of honor into a bloody finish that surpasses Bonnie and Clyde for violence.

THE FIXER. John Frankenheimer's newest film is the harrowing and moving chronicle of a Jewish handyman battling prejudice and degradation in czarist Russia. Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holm perform with passion and compassion.

GOODBYE, COLUMBUS. Richard Benjamin an.'. Ali MacGraw act with skill and candor in this film adaptation of the Philip Roth novella. The sexual frankness, the Jewish skepticism and the Roth dialogue are there, but the film too frequently mistakes burlesque for social comment.

THE FOOL KILLER and THE BOYS OF PAUL STREET. Youth is the focal point of both films. In The Fool Killer a twelve-year-old orphan runs away from his guardians --an adventure that brings him to the beginning of maturity. The Boys of Paul

Street uses the classroom as a microcosm to provide a glimpse into the irretrievable era when student protest took the form of whispers in a corridor.

BOOKS

THE YEAR OF THE YOUNG REBELS, by Stephen Spender. Mingling on the barricades with American and European student radicals, the Old Left poet and veteran of Spanish Civil War politics reports humanely on New Left ideals and spirit.

THE KINGDOM AND THE POWER, by Gay Talese. A former New York Times staffer takes his readers far behind the bylines for a gossipy analysis of the workings and power struggles at the nation's most in-r^u-ential newspaper.

" CRAYV tiVER HORSES, by Sam Toperoff. "Horses, horses, horses, crazy over horses," the old song goes. Less repetitive but equally obsessed, the author has transformed a lifelong weakness for the ponies into an oddly winning novel-memoir.

WHAT I'M GOING TO DO, I THINK, by L. Woiwode. A young couple expecting a baby embark on a seemingly idyllic honeymoon in the Michigan woods and discover terror in paradise. A remarkable first novel.

THE ECONOMY OF CITIES, by Jane Jacobs. Operating as curmudgeon and gadfly, but with a love of cities that overshadows mere statistics, the author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities explores the financial aspects of growth and decay in urban centers.

THE RUINED MAP, by Kobo Abe. In this psychological whodunit by one of Japan's best novelists (The Woman in the Dunes, The Face of Another), a detective turns a search for a missing husband into a metaphysical quest for his own identity.

ADA, by Vladimir Nabokov. A long, lyric fairy tale about time, memory and the 83-year-long love affair of a half-sister and half-brother by the finest living writer of English fiction.

PICTURES OF FIDELMAN, by Bernard Malamud. Yet another schleiniel, but this one is canonized by Malamud's compassionate talent.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. The Love Machine, Susann (1 last week)

2. Portnoy's Complaint, Roth (2)

3. Ada, Nabokov (3)

4. The Godfather, Puzo (4)

5. The Salzburg Connection, Maclnnes (6)

6. Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut (5)

7. Except for Me and Thee, West (7)

8. The Andromeda Strain, Crichton

9. Bullet Park, Cheever (9)

10. The Vines of Yarrabee, Eden

NONFICTION 1. Jennie, Martin (4)

2. Ernest Hemingway, Baker (2)

3. Between Parent and Teenager, Ginott (3)

4. The Peter Principle, Peter and Hull (1)

5. The 900 Days, Salisbury (6)

6. The Kingdom and the Power, Talese (5)

7. Lillian Gish: The Movies, Mr. Griffith and Me, Gish and Pinchot

8. A Long Row of Candles, Sulzberger (8)

9. Miss Craig's 21-Day Shape-Up Program for Men and Women, Craig (10)

10. The Money Game, 'Adam Smith' (7)

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