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Coa Anodes fflmca A Cooperative Couple: Virginia and Simon Ramo EW HMj fs. I jj hllii: (ilfeii MilMMkaB mm iiiif moHmwimmmm 1011 lib' aKf 'J PART IV FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1978 BY TIA GINDICK Tlmti Stiff Wrltir The cofounder of TRW-a tan, white-haired, distinguished-looking man named Simon Ramo-was at home with his wife, Virginia, one afternoon last week participating in a rare interview that at times sounded like it might have TV sitcom possibilities. Perhaps an updated version of Ozzie and Harriet set in Beverly Hills. From the "how-they-manage-to-reconcile-their-hec-tic-schedules-so-they-can-spend-time-together" segment, for example, the following dialogue took place: Ramo: "Well, we have secretarial assistance. But the really important things we have to settle because they go to priorities.

First of all, each of us has to figure out which important things are coming up as they come up. We usually find that at least once or twice a week we have a stack of things that have to be decided Mrs. Ramo, interrupting: "Yes, so I make an appoint- CRITIC AT LARGE 4 Jaws' the 2nd Time Around COMING HOME Next week Margaret Pack who was hospitalized two weeks with a rare will return to Victorvitle with daughter, Mary, disease caught in a quarantined hot spring. Times photo by Tony Barnird MEDICAL HISTORY MADE Saving the Life of a 9 -Year -Old 1 BY CHARLES CHAMPLIN TlnwtArttlditor Love may be lovelier the second time around, but fear is not more fearful. The familiar dilemma, faced and not solved by "Jaws 2," opening city wide today, is that movie things are never the same that second time around, but how do you make them really different? A shark has a much more limited repertoire than the son of Satan, and even Damien had a devil of a time, as we saw only recently, trying to figure out new deviltries, De Laurentiis' pet white whale Orca managed to lay waste a whole fishing village without leaving the water, but that was the kind of lucky carom shot that makes a rookie look better than he or she is, and the rest of the career was a letdown.

"Jaws 2," written by Carl Gottlieb and Howard Sackler using the Peter Benchley characters, stays perilously close to the dry land premise of the original. Mayor Murray Hamilton still doesn't want to hear that the waters off Amity Island may be shark-infested. It would be bad for summer business. Some people never learn. Joseph Mascolo is a real estate man who is even nastier about wanting Police Chief Roy Scheider to keep his mouth shut.

Scheider's wife, Lorraine Gary, is doing PR for Mascolo and that doesn't help. Scheider muddies his own waters by blazing away hysterically at what was only aschoolof bluefish. BY MARK JONES Tlnwt Stiff Wrtttf A Victorville family spent part of Memorial Day weekend splashing in a soothing natural spring in the San Bernardino National Forest. Later, when their daughter fell ill they thought a little aspirin, tea and sympathy were all she needed. "We thought she was just coming down with the flu," her mother explained.

But five days later Mary Pack, a pretty 9-year-old with Today, two weeks after Mary Pack was flown by helicopter to Harbor General where she was given almost no chance of survival the girl has, with the help of antibiotics, fought off the effects of the amoeba and made medical history. She is only the third person in the world known to have survived the strange, water-spawned organism. The youngster will be released from Harbor General sometime next week; apparently not a minute too soon. light blue eyes and corn- They dont make eggs Amoeba from a San Bernardino spring causes one of the world's rarest diseases. silk-blonde hair, lay in a deep coma at Harbor General Hospital fighting for her life against one of the world's rarest and least-understood amoebic diseases, amoebic here the way my mom does," Mary said in a weak voice the other day from her hospital bed.

The dramatic recovery of Mary Pack does not, however, diminish the lin NEGOTIATORS Si and Virginia Ramo make appointments to coordinate their schedules. Times photo by Larry Besscl ment with him once a week." (Laughter from the reporter and photographer.) Ramo, seriously: "We negotiate. I will want to go to this dinner. Mrs. Ramo, interrupting with a giggle: "I'll tell you how it goes.

He says no to everything. Then we start negotiating." Ramo, laughing: "That's cute, that's great." Ramo, who is retiring this year as vice chairman of TRW, is being honored Saturday as ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) Man of the Year at that group's annual ball at the Beverly Wilshire. Such honors Please Turn to Page 10, Col. 1 gering mystery of Deep Creek Hot Spring, the focus of forthcoming investigations by the state Health Department, Eastern medical investigators (the state of Virginia reports 18 cases similar to Mary's) and possibly the federal Environmental Protection Agency, according to Dr. James Seidel, who coordinated the girl's recovery at Harbor General.

"I don't think there's been an (amoebic) case anywhere in the world like Mary's, where the victim not only had Please Turn to Page 4, Col. 1 Upon investigation, doctors learned that the mountain spring where the Pack family spent its holiday Deep Creek Hot Spring, 23 miles southeast of Apple Valley-had been under federal quarantine against a mysterious microscopic bug (Amoeba naglaeri). All but two of its 100 victims worldwide died within 72 hours of the onset of coma. Indeed, the first victim in the western United States had been swimming in the same mountain pond shortly before dying of similar symptoms in 1971. Instead of the random victimizing of "Jaws 1," the shark now has a steady and continuing target a whole flotilla of likable youngsters, inevitably including the chiefs own kids, Mark Gruner and Marc Gilpin, who's hardly into grade school.

It's a good invention, and we don't want to see the young folks get chewed up. But despite our sympathy the suspense doesn't accumulate the way it ought to. The movie does manage a couple of real jolts, including a grisly discovery in the surf and some individual moments of suspense (when exactly will it strike and will they pull the kid back into the boat in The shark even takes on a helicopter, which is one up on Orca. But long before we get to a preposterously blazing finale, the real fears engendered by our very private feelings of vulnerability against an undernourished killer shark have been eroded by a rising tide of hokum. That fin, silently slicing the water, is probably the easiest of the shark effects to bring off, but it is also the most effectively scary.

Maybe because familiarity breeds indifference the more you see of the shark this time the more it seems to have wandered away from the Universal Studio Tour, manmade and mechanical. What you don't see is more persuasive than what you do. Less is more. "Jaws 2" is in fact a curious mix of less and more. The relationship between Scheider and Lorraine Gary is better developed, more adult, quite affecting.

Yet, as in "Jaws 1," the shore stuff works against the drama at sea. This time, too, the interruptions diminish rather than heighten the suspense and the start-up is very logy indeed. iff) STAGE REVIEW And Then They Wrote BY DAN SULLIVAN TiiMf Thtaltr CrHk Two nice people named Betty Comden and Adolph Green came to the Westwood Playhouse Wednesday night. They are writer types, basically, specializing in mu-. sical comedy shows like "On The Town" and the recent "On the Twentieth Century," films like "Singin' in the Rain" (they do the words).

But they started years back as revue performers, and occasionally like to get back to it. Their show, an update of one first presented in the late 1950s, is called "A Party." It is a couple of dozen of their songs, with some stories of how they came to be written, very relaxed, very living room. With Gene Kelly and other of Comden and Green's pals from the good old days at MGM sitting upfront Wednesday night, the party took on the aspect of a class reunion, without the sloppiness. People were not applauding every other minute. Friends don't have to.

You cannot not be friends with Miss Comden and Mr. Green. They do not have great voices. Their long notes remind you of a man clinging to a window ledge 20 stories up. But they aren't shy about presenting what voices they do have, and the faster the tune the closer they come to it.

No, we wouldn't have heard of them had they stuck to Please Turn to Page 32, Col. 1 It is clear that producers David Brown and Richard D. Zanuck set out to minimize the gore and leave our imaginations to make the mayhem. I counted eight dead (although it's a bit vague toward the end) but only one real blood-slick and no random parts floating by that I remember. The PG rating is quite reasonable this time.

(I had thought it was an overgenerous gift to "Jaws But a certain kind of earnestness and a certain kind of carny showmanship work against each other, resulting in a very, very slow two hours of rather toothless sharkfare. Jeannot Szwarc, who took over from John Hancock as director amid controversy over the picture's aims (Gothic dark or Gallic light?) seems on the evidence a sensitive director of performance. Teen-agers are not easy to seem natural on the screen, but Szwarc has handled his jeopardized sailors very effectively Ann Dusenberry, Donna Wilks, Cynthia Grover, Martha Swatek and Gigi Morgan are the girls; Gary Springer, Gary Dubin, John Dukakis, G. Thomas Dunlop, David Elliott, Keith Gordon, Ben Marley and Billy Van Zandt the other boys. Jeffrey Kramer is Scheider's deputy and Collin Wilcox has a cameo as a scientist John Williams returns with ominous murmurings in the basses and tranquil melodies in the woodwinds and flutes to suggest the menace and the raptures of the deep.

His music is again extremely contributory. Michael Butler did the photography (with special shark footage by Ron and Valerie Taylor). There is no doubt that the uncommonly difficult problems of shooting action at sea have been well solved. What has been less well answered is what a shark does for an encore. DRIVE, HE SAID Robert Duvall is Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lee Remick is Kay Summersby, his chauffeur confidante, in the TV movie "Ike," now on location in London. TV FILM 'IKE' ON LOCATION With Eisenhower in London BY CECIL SMITH Ttants Ttttvhtai Critic THE VIEWS INSIDE ART SEIDENBAUM The Barnyard Comes to Carmel The Barnyard is what shopping centers ought to be. Big splashes of daisies and trees along brick, walkways, under real rather than conditioned air. Stores owned and operated by local merchants without franchises.

No glut of shoe shops. No chains of jewelers. No national ground beef. A design theme to amuse without monuments. The nearly 50 merchants live in a cluster of California barns, researched and reconstructed anew, tied together by board and batten construction.

Barns with heavy overhangs. Barns with steep roofs. A barn built around a hexagon. A windmill. A watertank.

George Larsen drew it, as conceived by the Waldroup family. The Waldroups did the developing; they own the Thun-derbird, a combination bookstore and restaurant smack in the middle of craftshops and artshops and houseware shops. The Barnyard has its own legitimate theater on the premises. There's an office for Friends of the Sea Otter. There are daily demonstrations free on working leather and baking pastry.

There's even a print shop with its own press. The Barnyard is a big presence without an anchor. -No major department store sits at either end. That's almost heresy, to build without a mammoth retailer, without national chains, without overhead enclosure, without platoons of uniformed guards. Please Turn to Page 14, Col.

3 LONDON-Traditionally, on England's bank holidays, it storms. The latest one, it sizzled. "81 -HOTTER THAN SPAIN," screamed the banner line on a London paper. Londoners shed shirts and shoes, flopped in Hyde Park in bikinis, swarmed to the seaside and the country. Boris Sagal complained.

Squinting at the bright blue sunlit skies over Grosvenor Square, director Sagal said: "This will look like the backlot at MGM. This isn't why we came to England." During War Years Sagal is directing "Ike," Mel Shavelson's six-hour biographical drama for ABC of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower during the four war years, 1941-45, when he commanded the allied forces in London and when that pert Briton Kay Summersby was his driver and confidante. The film, with Robert Duvall as the general and Lee Remick as Kay Summersby, is based, in part, on Ms.

Summersby 's book, "Past Forgetting," published after her death, in which, loud and clear, she proclaimed her love for Eisenhower. Though many say that Eisenhower returned that love and that he and Kay lived openly together in London, there's no evidence this was so at least, not enough for ABC. Shavelson's script sidesteps the issue. Said producer Bill McCutchen: "We know the way Kay felt but we are not at all certain of Ike's response aside from the fact that they were very close and he did many things for her. But we have a former First Lady very much alive, who is a nice, good person, and we would do nothing to embarrass her.

We want to handle this very carefully. Hopefully, the audience will make up their own minds as to what happened Whatever its value as history, Lee Remick feels Shavelson's handling of the story is splendid drama "It becomes a story of unrequited love," she said, "terribly romantic. I think it's terrific." Not a Docudrama Said McCutchen: "This is not a docudrama, but the history as far as Eisenhower's life is concernedthis relatively unsophisticated fellow stepping onto the world stage, sprung past 360 officers who outranked him it's historically accurate. And the Department of Defense examined every line of the script for military accuracy and they agreed to cooperate Please Turn to Page 34, Col. 1 BOOKS: Nona Balakian's "Critical Encounters: Literary Views and Reviews, 1953-1977" by Robert Kirsch on Page 8.

MOVIES: "Grease" by Charles Champlin on Page 30. MUSIC: Laura Nyro by Dennis Hunt on Page 28. STAGE: "The Moon Is Blue," and other theater, in Stage Beat by John C. Mahoney on Page 20. "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" by John C.

Mahoney on Page 32. AND OTHER FEATURES Art Walk 6 Family Film Guide Page 26 Bernheimer Page 22 Jody Jacobs Page 2 Bridge Page 12 Dr. Solomon 13 Comics Page 35 Tops in Pops Page 32 Television Pages 34-36.