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Wednesday, December 2 CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).- Japan's top cameramen explore the lives of five Japanese from different strata of society, all beset by the problems of adjusting to the nation's increasingly Westernized way of life...
There is nothing like a change of key to unlock a whole new career. At least such is the case of a tall Welsh lass named Gwyneth Jones. A year and a half ago she was a so-so mezzo, beset with a special problem: "My voice just kept going up and up." Why fight it, she thought. So presto change, the mez zo became a soprano...
...break the Red grip on so many Italian cities and towns. In next week's municipal elections, 6,724 communities will vote for local officials, and sharp Communist gains could bring down the virtually paralyzed center-left coalition government of the Christian Democrats and Socialists. While Italy is beset by inflation and strikes, the coalition parties are campaigning largely on the argument that Communists are Communists, one using Khrushchev's ouster to underline the point; the Christian Democrats even put up portraits of Khrushchev, Malenkov, Stalin and Mao right in Rome's Via Veneto to recall...
...INDIA.-beset by food shortages, corruption and mismanagement, with Red Chinese troops solidly dug in along the 14,500-square-rrwle border area they tested two years...
...PHILIPPINES: firmly tied to the U.S., with local Communists reduced to an insignificant handful, but beset by economic troubles and worried about Chinese and Indonesian expansion...