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...WIZARD (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Hal Holbrook narrates "Wild World," which takes a look at the golden eagle, bison, baboons, octopuses and other animals in their native habitats...
...take drawing as lightly as it is taken today. Drawing has had its great days-the Renaissance, the 18th and 19th centuries -but it is impossible to doubt that the pop art of, say, Roy Lichtenstein (b. 1923) represents anything but a descent from the anonymous caveman who drew bison and deer with a masterly hand perhaps 15,000 years...
Bucknell upset Harvard when they last met in 1964, and the Crimson seems bent on gaining revenge by comparative scores this fall. The Bisons have lost to two teams Harvard has beaten and to a third the Crimson plays today. Another similar situation will be set up this afternoon when Penn downs Bucknell, 27-14. If Harvard ends the season beating four Bison tamers, more than revenge will be sweet...
Bunker shot bison in the jungles of Mysore for relaxation. As for his ability to withstand Viet Nam's heat, Bunker, who seems to take his own temperate zone wherever he goes, regularly worked 20-hour days in steaming Santo Domingo without losing his starch...
...used a camera obscura to obtain perfect perspectives for his city scapes. After the destruction of Warsaw during World War II, his paintings were so accurate that they were used to reconstruct demolished monuments and buildings. The horn of the Wieliczka salt miners, made in 1534 from a bison that roamed Central Europe, celebrates a mine dating back to prehistoric times. Offered in the king's name by the mine-owner to his well-organized craft guild, its backbreaking gesture seemingly turns their burdens into the symbol of an elegant cornucopia full of goodness...