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Problems That Worry Modem Youth Miss Teen-age America Candidates Cite Moral Standards, Lack of Communication Willi Adults Myles Standish The New Films Bizarre and Horrifying IF YOU THOUGHT director John Frankenheimer's "The Manchurian Candidate" was bizarre, wait until you see "SECONDS" at the FOX THEATER. It is a brilliant, fascinating, weird and horrifying piece of work which probably 1-r By Patricia McCormach NEW YORK, Nov. 4 (lil'l) CONTEMPORARY teen-agers worry about the communications gap between themselves and adults. But even more so, a survey by United Press International disclosed, they sprout thinking pains over the search for moral 33r A will emerge as one of the best films of the year. Behind that drab title why did they ever saddle this extraordinary picture with that one? is such a macabre and intriguing drama as might have been fashioned by a modern Edgar Allan Poe.

It opens with a stodgy middle-aged New York banker being mysteriously followed in themselves and adults. Krisline (l.iciuie, of Colorado Springs, noted that the searching for identity is evident in the way teen-agers alicntfte themselves traditional nanners and dress. "Many teen agers feel they must strip off the robes of traditionalism in order to see themselves as they really she said. M'liss Honegger, Stockton, said the search would be less painful if there were better examples from adults, plus consistent enforcement of time-honored rules of behavior. THE LACK of communication between teen-agers and adults, said Allyn E.

Warner, Jof Cumberland, has some-thing to do with the way teens are rebelling iin dress, grooming, manners. Vicki Gutin, Cincinnati, said that the gap between the generations could be narrowed. Sha suggested that newspapers Stop playing up antics of raucofis, rude and disrespectful youths, She thinks it would help if tha papers gave greater emphasis to teen-agers' outstanding complishmenls. Sherry O'Neill, Miami, found fault with Ihe'general attitude of most adults, citing that as the biggest 'problem1 of teen agers. "Adults seem to quick to Accuse the many for the artinns of a few," she said.

'They should give credit to the gobd qualities that most teen agers have, and don't let the few bad ones get off so easy. "I think this would work. If due credit is given for good qualities then teen agers would try harder, and the bad ones would be discouraged because of fear of certain punishment." standards. The teen-agers asked to describe "the biggest problem facing teen-agers today" are participants in the Miss Teenage America pageant in Dallas, Tex. The girls, representing major cities from all states, are between 13 and 17 years of age.

Most are 16 or 17. They are poised, intelligent and headed for college. The greatest number of teenagers participating in the survey indicated confusion over the differences between right and wrong. Others cited pressures on teen-agers in schools. And those with set ideas about moral standards indicated there are difficulties "living up to one's high standards." Diana J.

Dalton of Dearborn, said: "In the world of today, sox has greatly emerged from its cover of shame and secrecy. This relative freedom, however, brings its problems concerning 'personal acceptance' to a member of the rwite sex." SHE SUGGESTED that the problem could be solved by girls who refused to act loose and cheap. She said also it would help if boys stuck to a rigid moral pattern. Linda Kirts, Odessa, said the number of unwed mothers and widespread immorality of teens prompted her to say that sex is the biggest problem facing adolescents. "If teens understood sex and what it means, they would be less likely to enter into a pre- mature relationship," she said.

"If teens saw less vulgarity in regard to sex and more facts their impressions naturally would be more acceptable and more mature." MISS KIRTS said no one thing can be blamed, but: "The schools could be blamed for not providing adequate sex education; parents, for creating an unstable home life; churches, for not reaching teens with a strong faith; communications, for all the smutty literature, the wild and lurid movies, the image of the sex queen. And the teen himself could be blamed for conforming to the crowd instead of setting his own moral standards." C. Lynn Shepherd, Memphis, cited the constant confusion between the right and wrong of a situation as the biggest teen-age problem. She said parents "do not prepare their children for this time so they will he able to recognize what is right." The shift In moral patterns, said Susan A. Thomas, New Orleans, is "a grand leap back- wards." Parents and older persons influencing teen-agers bear the responsibility for teen-age confusion over moral values, says Joanne Greene, of Augusta, Ga.

"Teen-agers," she said, "are surrounded by people who say that the 'old' morals are outdated. This confuses teen-agers in their search for moral values. "Parents should show their New York's Grand Central Station as he boards a commuter train to his suburban home. Then it follows with a hoarse and urgent middle-of-the-night telephone call to the banker. It is evident by then that this man, played by an obscure actor named John Randolph, is sink in the morass of a dull, staid, loveless and boring existence, in which he and his wife merely tolerate each other.

The phone call touches the spring of a gnawing hunger a wish for a new life. In a suspenseful sequence, the banker is taken to an office building which turns out to be a human reconditioning laboratory run by an old man (Will Geer) Whose benign smile and folksy manner mask cold-blooded evil. For an immense price, the banker's death is faked and he Is given a new identity that of internationally known painter and bachelor playboy, a young man of good looks (as a matter of fact, good-looking enough to be Rock Hudson), charm and appeal to women. Plastic surgery, a long drill in background and schooling in painting, prepare him for the rebirth. Only when this has been accomplished does the full shock and horror reach him that the original artist, Tony Wilson, whose identity he has assumed, must have been murdered to make way for him.

Established in a handsome beach villa at Malibu, California, Hudson tastes all the joys of life of which he had dreamed. He quickly acquires a beautiful and charming mistress (Salome Jens), attends smart parties and goes on a bacchanalian orgy in a vinyard with many gay Bohemian characters (a sequence, incidentally, done by Frankenheimer quite vividly without descending to bad taste). But his conscience, which has never been excised by the extensive surgery, eventually sours this idyllic existence. He drinks too much, and his drunken remarks at a party attended by many other zombies like him, make it evident he is dangerous to the organization. The ending is as terrifying a cinematic sequence as has ever been put on the screen blood-chilling and horrific.

Hudson, surprisingly, comes up with a genuinely emotional performance and the rest of the cast, including Murray Hamilton as an old friend who has gone the same route, is quite competent. Frankenheimer has intensified the frightening reality cf this macabre drama by shooting it, not against bizarre sets, but in prosaic locations called for by the script. Slick Service Buddy Comedy REMEMBER Capt. Flagg and Sgt. Quirt, the ever-feuding women-chasing buddies of "What Price They have been updated and promoted as two United States Air Force colonels, given couthness, adroitness and gloss in the persons of Tony Curtis and George C.

Scott, and children, by their own example, that the 'old' moral codes are the best and later, as teenagers, they will judge for themselves." Karen Lee Wyland, Richmond, said the pressures and demands of the accelerated way of life and the exaggerated emphasis on the teen agers as the leaders of tomorrow are problems of greatest importance. "I feel the teen ager of today does not have time to grow up because of pressure from all sides," she said. "There is too much attention focused on the teen agers as a group, not individuals." As a solution, she urged less pressure from society and the community. She also asked for less publicity on the teen-agers as a cult and more interest in "Jane" or "John." Pamela Ann Henry, Richmond, said the pressure to achieve high marks stems from the inability to get into college on average work. The jam at college entrances, in her analysis, "cannot be blamed on anything but overpopulation." Karen Brown, Springfield, 111,, and classmates "worry constantly about whHlirr their grades will enable i hem to enter college." "Another worry is iphe financial part of a college education," sne said.

Like many of those surveyed, she suggested that the problem of school pressures could be solved by examining the present grading system. One participant suggested changing tiie grading system to two marks satisfactory and unsatisfactory. Other problems listed frequently by teen agers included the search for identity, and the communication gap between Advice for Youths Fed Up With Advice Today 's Contract Bridge "I'd like to see the teens must take your affairs of the By B. Jay Becker 1. YOU ARE declarer with the West hand at Six Notrump.

North leads the jack of clubs. How would you play the hand? KJ10653 10 9 6 2 placed in a polished, gag-filled and very 't fnnnv rnmpflv "N'flT WITH MY WIFE. K109852 AK4 AKQ You should therefore take stops to prevent this from happening. The best way of tryiig to stop the ruff is to lead the ace of hearts at trick two and then continue with the queen. Assuming that South follows low, discard your spade on the queen.

North the heart w'jh the king, hi: I he can no longer do ynu in, ile has no way of putting Srulh on lead for the diamond return anil the only other trick you lose is to the are of clubs. What you do, in effect, is substitute a heart loser for a spade loser, but, "in, the course cf the substitution, you remove Norths fangs. YOU DON'T." It's showing at the ESQUIRE. Curtis plays a lieutenant-colonel, an aide to a gruff, powerhouse three-star general on a tour of European bases. Tony's life is divided between arranging things for themselves realize they're more than an age, more than a population group," Benny Goodman noted.

"They're the sole owners and directors of a precious span of life that lasts a meager seven years." The advice is as varied as the edibles at a smorgasbord. Kenneth Tynan makes a plea for youth as a time to make a fool of oneself. Eileen Farrell counsels courage in changing careers. Pete Seeger advises: "Don't let your studies interfere with your education." Rube Goldberg, famed funny man and creator of zany cartoons, cautioned teen-agers against brushing off all the old rules. And an anecdote he told reminds teen-agers they're not heart slow and easy." Who said it? Rod Serling, creator of the television science-fiction show "Twilight Zone." Serling and 42 other persons advise teen-agers in a new bnrk "The Seventeen Book of Yerv Important Persons" (Mjc'Iilian).

Listen to some of the other advice: "You're all we've got our hope and our real joy. Check in now and then by phone or smoke signal, but check. It's comforting to know you're not a spot on the freeway," advises Rosalind Russell. "Dedication has to come first, but there are three o(her musts for every career girl: good appearance, good speech and good manners. If you don't form these habits in your teens, you never will," says Joan By Gay Pauley NEW YORK, Nov.

4 (UPI) TEEN-AGERS tired of advice from psychologists, psychiatrists, anthropologists and sociologists have my sympathv. "Why don't they stop studying us?" is tie chorus from teen-agers as some new report from the ivory towers breaks into print. To switch the pace, how about listening to some comments on the glorious teen years from a lot of folks who, though not ignorant, aren't specialists. "Nobody can tell you not to go steady because no human being yet has reached that point of sheer perfection when he can dictate what a heart feels, what a set of emotions orders or what your eyeballs feast on and decide they like. The thing to remember here is that you the ace of spades and then lead a heart to the ace with the intention of next discarding a diamond on the king of spades.

Assuming that the spade queen did not fall, you would be in danger ni' going dawn if the player who took the third round of hearts, when you attempted to establish the suit, was now able to cash the queen cf spades. There is a miu'h better chance of making the contract by conceding a heart trick on the first round of the suit instead of a later round. 2. The bidding indicates that North has the ace of clubs as part nf his opening bid, while the lead indicates that North i probably has a singleton dia-. mond.

If you attack trumps immediately, you 'run the danger that North will take the ace and put his partner on lead with a spade for the killing dia-! mond return. I 2. You are declarer with the West hand at Five Cluba dou. bled. The bidding; ha been: North East South West lt Dole 8 4 4 fiV Paal Pais Dble Norm leads' the nine of diamonds.

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He attended a school board meeting in the company of John D. Rockefeller Jr. (father of Nelson, Winthrop and the others). Rockefeller was asked to give his formula for raising children. He stood up and said: "It is very simple.

Just give 1. Win the club, casih the ace of spaces, and lead a lew heart. If North follows low, play the seven from dummy. This sequence of plays will make the contract in every case where the hearts are divided 3-2, as well as in those cases where one opponent has the double ton queen of spades. it.

ll 111 It would be incorrect to cash them a good mother. the general and placating his beautiful and tempestuous Italian wife, Virna Lisi. Along comes old buddy Scott, now a chicken colonel, and is most unwelcome, as he once had a lecherous eye out for the delectable Miss Lisi when she was en Army nurse in Korea. Flashback to the Korean days when the buddies were fighter pilots together and spent their free -time double-crossing each other over women. When Scott was shot down into the ocean, rescued and taken to Manila to recover, Tony saw the road clear for himseh with Miss Lisi, never informed her of the rescue, and delivered a masterful mock funeral oration while throwing roses into the sea to commemorate his buddy's heroic demise.

Miss Lisi is a girl who always wanted two of everything and she is mightily attracted again to the urbane Scott, who evilly arranges for Curtis to be sent to Labrador for an Arctic survival course. This completely wacky and engaging film has been engineered for outrageous situations and laughs by director-producer and co-scripter Norman Panama. Sample joke on an Italian beach: Miss Lisi In a skimpy striped swimming suit: "I bought this for my husband." Scott: "It will never fit him." But Panama also gets in a bit of satire, a devas-tating parody of the Italian sex drama, in which the horrified Miss Lisi, attending a movie theater in Rome, sees herself, Curtis and Scott on the screen as the actors in a tragic triangle. Curtis is as facilr as usual, but it is Scott who is the comic surprise. He has never done comedy on the screen before, but turns up as very deft, with a keen sense of comedy steering between the broad and the polished.

The beautiful Miss Lisi is quite worthy of all the feuding and Carroll O'Connor is very good as the cigar-chewing general. Intriguing Psychological Drama DIRECTOR DELBERT MANN and screenwriter Dale Wasserman have turned out another psychological drama, "MISTER BUDDWING," which, although by no means as masterful as "Seconds," is well done and quite intriguing. ITS rSCE aW NEW YORK, Nov. 4 (UPI) THE NATIONAL list of the top 20 single records for this week, as selected by Billboard magazine on the basis of airplay and sales: 1) "Last Train to Clarksvllle." The Monkees. 12) "N.ne:y-iT Tears." Qu'ntlon Mark and the Mysterrins.

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