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WONDERFUL WORLD OF WHEELS (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A car buff's special revs up with a gallery of antiques, roars into futuristic creations and scenes from some history-making races...
...architecture has recourse to Moorish arches of the typical multifoil horseshoe type. In keeping with the mellow glow that permeates the script, Armstrong has used light buff walls with abstract Turkish surface decoration--a gold for Duke Orsino's palace, and in pink and blue for Lady Olivia's house...
...sits in his office in the buff-colored onetime French colonial-ministry building in Hanoi and contemplates his war maps, Vo Nguyen Giap today confronts a far more difficult situation. Unlike his ill-fated French predecessors, who were told to make do with the troops on hand, U.S. Commander William C. Westmoreland has been promised everything he needs to win the war-and has been getting it. Allied troops already outnumber Giap's forces in the South by over 4 to 1, and there are more to come: an estimated 100,000 more U.S. fighting men to be added...
...Italian opera," snorts one Milanese buff, "is going to the dogs because so many dogs are singing it today." Symptomatic of the problem was La Scala's season-ending production last week of a 147-year-old opera called Olympie, by Gasparo Spontini. It flopped, mainly because it lacked a singer of superstar rank. In the past, the company could dredge up any old potboiler, cast Callas or Tebaldi in the lead, and have a resounding success. But now Callas and Tebaldi are little more than memories in Italy. Along with the younger corps of fine singers, they have...
...existence. By rights, he should feel snootily superior to the joint, pouch his fee, and go back to Nottingham. Instead, the Creative Writing Fellow has a fling at, or with, life. He sheds his tweed for seersucker, tries to shed his wife by cable, swims by night in the buff, grapples with faculty wives, and plays madly on bongo drums. He has no worries except that he is required to sign a loyalty oath...