TELEVISION

Wednesday, June 23 ABC SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.).* "U.N. at 20: What Peace Does It Keep?"

An examination of the U.N.'s five major crises -- Iran, Suez, Korea, Cuba and the Congo -- including interviews with Trygve Lie, U Thant, Adlai Stevenson, Henry Cabot Lodge and others.

Friday, June 25 FDR (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). The historic friendship between Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.

BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). "Out on the Outskirts of Town," a drama by William Inge starring Anne Bancroft and Jack Warden. Repeat.

VACATION PLAYHOUSE (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). A summer anthology series made up of pilot films and tapes for new TV shows that didn't make it. The first episode stars Suzy Parker as a wood nymph sentenced (for vanity) to performing 100 good deeds among mortals. Premiere.

PEYTON PLACE III (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.).

So successful has this soaper been in prime time, that it's spreading itself to a third night a week.

THE JACK PAAR PROGRAM (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Paar pauses for one last farewell before firing his retrorockets and plunging from network TV to a recovery area in backwoods Maine. This final show, minus audience and guests, will feature Paar replaying old tapes of his past three years on prime time and reminiscing about his eight-year orbit across the NBC air waves.

Saturday, June 26 IRISH SWEEPSTAKES DERBY (ABC, 9:45-10:15 a.m.). Live from Dublin via Early Bird.

SPORTSMAN'S HOLIDAY (NBC, 5:45-6 p.m.). A new 15-minute series, in color, featuring exciting experiences in hunting and fishing. Premieere.

FANFARE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A new live musical-variety show, hosted by Al Hirt. The first installment features Ballet Dancers Edward Villella and Patricia McBride, Opera Singer Anna Moffo and Rock 'n' Roller Dionne Warwick. Premiere.

1965 COACHES' ALL-AMERICA FOOTBALL GAME (ABC, 9:30 p.m. to conclusion).

East v. West, live from Buffalo.

Sunday, June 27 DIRECTIONS '65 (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.).

Sculptor George Segal, Art Critic Brian O'Doherty, and New York Jewish Museum Board Chairman Mrs. Albert List discuss "Contemporary Art."

WHERE THE ACTION IS (ABC, 2-2:30 p.m.). A summer musical-variety show for school-agers out of school. Premiere.

GENERAL FOODS SUMMER PLAYHOUSE (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). Another summer series made up of pilots that never got off the ground, in this case situation comedies.

The first show is about a struggling New York artist who inherits a small town in California. Premiere.

ALL-STAR SPECIAL (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). "It's What's Happening, Baby," a top-talent rock 'n' roll show with Disk Jockey "Murray the K." soft-selling economic opportunities to the nation's high school dropouts and jobless teenagers. Time and talent are being donated free by the network, the singers, and M. the K.

THEATER

On Broadway

THE GLASS MENAGERIE. This revival of Tennessee Williams' 20-year-old masterpiece, while miscast, is a jewel in Broadway's currently tarnished crown.

HALF A SIXPENCE is a pleasant showcase for Tommy Steele, an ingratiating pre-Beatle Beatle. Bright tunes and dances seem brighter when brushed with the Steele charm.

THE ODD COUPLE. Art Carney and Walter Matthau are supremely funny as a mismatched pair of shell-shocked husbands beating a retreat from the frays of marriage. Living together is enough to send them back into the thick of the battle.

LUV frolics through the mazes and labyrinths of three pseudo-Freudian psyches --all suffering from nothing more than acute self-attention. Anne Jackson, Alan Arkin, and Eli Wallach are brilliant.

THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT. In Bill Manhoff's romantic merry-go-round, a neurotic prostitute (Diana Sands) has a priggish book clerk (Alan Alda) running around in sidesplitting circles.

Off Broadway

KRAPP'S LAST TAPE and THE ZOO STORY. In a fifth-anniversary revival of this double bill, Edward Albee's Story is still provocative and dramatic and Samuel Beckett's Tape has the charisma of a classic.

SQUARE IN THE EYE. While too many themes and techniques are crowded within its angle of vision, Eye is alive with a phantasmagoric sense of the present. Playwright Jack Gelber's latest satiric work tickles the ribs to stab the brain.

THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ENTIRE WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF COLE PORTER REVISITED romps through the lighter side of life during the crash, the Depression and World War II. The Porter wit and comic insight prove there was indeed a lighter side.

RECORDS

HERMAN'S HERMITS ON TOUR (M-G-M). "The worst singer in the world can sing our songs," says Herman, cheerfully explaining away such hits as the million-selling Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter. The second collection of what Herman correctly calls "the simplest music there is" includes his teen love ditties, Silhouettes and Can't You Hear My Heartbeat, as well as I'm Henry VIII, I Am ("I got married to the widow next door. She's been married seven times before.")

WAYNE FONTANA AND THE MINDBENDERS: THE GAME OF LOVE (Fontana). Manchester's Mindbenders mind their rhythm 'n' blues as they holler "The purpose of a man is to love a woman," and then whoop, "Come on, baby, let's play the game of love." They are equally exuberant as they beat out Keep Your Hands Off My Baby and Girl Can't Help It.

TOM JONES: IT'S NOT UNUSUAL (Parrot). Now it is a Welsh miner's son, a curlyheaded six-footer with a bronze voice and a pair of leather lungs, who belts out Chuck Berry songs like Memphis Tennessee. Jones dips into folk as well (Skye Boat Song), but runs down in sentimental ballads like It's Just a Matter of Time.

SAM THE SHAM AND THE PHARAOHS: WOOLY BULLY. Sam, who comes from Dallas, plays a jazzy organ and travels by hearse with his harum-scarum pharaohs, who sing falsetto or blow the sax. Wooly Bully is their runaway hit, but there are other lightheaded numbers like Gangster of Love and a Latin piece by Sam called Juimonos (meaning "Let's Went" in slangy Spanish).

THE BEACH BOYS TODAY! (Capitol). Now that they have put aside their surfboards and hotrods, the big West Coast quintet has time to ponder life and love. They wonder, for example, what is going to "turn them on" when they "grow up to be a man." They beg in their choirboy voices, "Don't hurt my little sister. She digs you." They choke back the tears to admit they are "so young, can't marry no one."

THE MIRACLES: GREATEST HITS FROM THE BEGINNING (2 LPs; Tamla). The Detroit group revives some early-style rock 'n' roll that sounds surprisingly subtle, harmonious and low-keyed compared with most of its imitations. The chiffon voice is Claudette's and the lead singer of the male quartet is Bill ("Smokey") Robinson, who also wrote most of the songs (Got a Job, What's So Good About Goodbye).

MARTHA AND THE VANDELLAS: DANCE PARTY (Gordy). Some higher-voltage Detroit music, with Martha agitating a party, giving directions for the jerk and raising the roof over Mobile Lil the Dancing Witch, Mickey's Monkey and Hitch Hike.

CINEMA

THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES. While Stuart Whitman and James Fox fly to win the favor of winsome Sarah Miles, this disarming comedy assigns its zanier thrills, spills and laughter to Terry-Thomas, Gert Frobe and Alberto Sordi, all clowning in outrageous but flyable aircraft as competitors in a great London-Paris air race of 1910.

SYMPHONY FOR A MASSACRE. French Director Jacques Deray, smoothly working variations on the themes of The Asphalt Jungle and Rififi, follows five men through a suspenseful million-dollar caper that turns into a deadly game of dishonor among thieves.

LA TIA TULA. In a first film of faultless artistry, Spanish Director Miguel Picazo studies a still beautiful spinster (Aurora Bautista) whose unyielding virtue conquers the passion she feels for her dead sister's husband.

MIRAGE. A plot that often seems trickier than a Chinese puzzle is pieced together entertainingly by a traumatized scientist (Gregory Peck) and a rather inept private eye (Walter Matthau) who keeps his wit about him.

CAT BALLOU. Lee Marvin is hilarious twice over as a pair of roguish gunslingers, one to help, one to hinder a way-out Western lass (Jane Fonda) who gives up school-teaching to become a desperado.

IL SUCCESSO. How to succeed, Italian-style, is the subject of a sometimes fierce, sometimes frolicsome satire about a rising young executive (Vittorio Gassman) and the loved ones he leaves behind.

THE YELLOW ROLLS-ROYCE. Among the luminous bodies who find love, then lose it, during three smooth but shallow intrigues staged in the back seat of a 1930 model Phantom II are Rex Harrison and Jeanne Moreau, Alain Delon and Shirley MacLaine, Omar Sharif and Ingrid Bergman.

THE PAWNBROKER. The nightmare world of Spanish Harlem awakens the humanity of a wretched old Jew whose past and present come stingingly to life in the performance of Rod Steiger.

BOOKS

Best Reading

MISSION IN TORMENT, by John Mecklin. The author, who was USIS chief in Saigon from 1962 to 1964, takes a balanced second look at U.S. policy toward Viet Nam and especially toward the late Ngo Dinh Diem. Mecklin feels that the U.S. measured Diem only by his intransigence and overlooked his legitimate sovereignty, thereupon condoning the coup that unleashed warring factions and led to six more coups.

LADY WU, by Lin Yutang. From the remote era of 7th century Imperial China, Author Yutang has recalled an empress who was Cleopatra, Catherine the Great and Lucrezia Borgia rolled into one fiery, demonic woman. Clawing her way from obscurity to power, she killed wantonly and hideously; finally on the throne, she became a model ruler.

IS PARIS BURNING? by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre. The exciting story of the 1944 rescue of Paris from Hitler's vow to dynamite it and from the Communist plot to seize it.

EVERYTHING THAT RISES MUST CONVERGE, by Flannery O'Connor. These last brilliant stories by the late Miss O'Connor give no quarter to pity and seldom, even, to compassion. Instead, they illustrate the author's favorite themes: the bonds between parent and child, between the tyrannical weak and the consuming strong, and between Southerners--white and Negro--leashed in hatred to each other.

ASSORTED PROSE, by John Updike. A fine collection of essays and reportage on subjects ranging from light verse to Boston's long love-hate affair with Ted Williams.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. Up the Down Staircase, Kaufman (1 last week) 2. The Ambassador, West (2) 3. Hotel, Hailey (3) 4. The Source, Michener (5) 5. Don't Stop the Carnival, Wouk (6) 6. Herzog, Bellow (4) 7. The Flight of the Falcon, Du Maurier (7) 8. The Man, Wallace (9) 9. Night of Camp David, Knebel 10. A Pillar of Iron, Caldwell (8)

NONFICTION 1. The Oxford History of the American People, Morison (2) 2. Markings, Hammarskjold (1) 3. The Founding Father, Whalen (5) 4. Journal of a Soul, Pope John XXIII (3) 5. Queen Victoria, Longford (4) 6. The Italians, Barzini (7) 7. How to Be a Jewish Mother, Greenburg (6) 8. Is Paris Burning? Collins and Lapierre 9. My Shadow Ran Fast, Sands (9) 10. Sixpence in Her Shoe, McGinley (8)

* All times E.D.T.

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