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While it was still under way, Sir Francis Chichester's 226-day single-handed circumnavigation of the globe in the 53-ft. ketch Gipsy Moth IV received more popular acclaim than an armada of Magellans, Drakes and Joshua Slocums. Fleet Street printed reams on his every tack; BBC cameras traced his tortuous rounding of Cape Horn; the Queen knighted him in midpassage. Sailors and landlubbers alike marveled at the ability of a 65-year-old man, who had won a bout with lung cancer eight years earlier, to survive everything from chronic leaks to a capsizing in the Tasman...
What saved the week was a BBC dramatization of E. M. Forster's A Passage to India, carried by 35 U.S. public TV channels. Thanks in large part to authentic exteriors shot in India and an impeccable cast headed by Dame Sybil Thorndike, this was as sharp a TV drama as U.S. audiences have seen all season...
...BBC Symphony's Colin Davis, 40, ranks as Britain's best conductor since Sir Thomas Beecham. He has a relatively wide repertory, ranging from Mozart through Berlioz to Stravinsky, and an uncanny talent for instilling the faded and familiar with fresh life. His straightforward technique combines grace with precision and gravity with rhythmic bite, and his touch in the opera pit is firm and stylish...
Prince Philip sent a telegram: "It was the best news I've heard." Prime Minister Harold Wilson added congratulations, and all three British political parties endorsed the girls' move. Britain's new poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis (see following story) wrote a tribute. BBC-TV featured the girls on its major news program, and two London ad agencies bought full pages in the Times of London to hail their spirit. London's Financial Times praised the plan as a way to remedy Britain's economic weakness. A printing firm in Lincolnshire began turning...
...recording studios. The guru bit was a kick, and so was making home movies. Say, they thought, why not combine the two and make a sort of visionary flick for TV? Fab! Paul directed, Ringo mugged, John did imitations, George danced a bit and, when the show hit the BBC last week, the audience gagged. Titled Magical Mystery Tour after their latest album, the one-hour show was never magical but always mysterious. Try as they might, viewers were unable to divine just exactly what was going on. Chaos is perhaps the best description. To make the film, the Beatles...