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...Ford Show (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). For viewers with odd tastes, Tennessee Ernie has a go at Georges Bizet's Carmen. Color...
Decisive action by Governer John A. Volpe brought an end yesterday afternoon to the wildcat strike against the MTA by members of the Boston Carmen's Union, but the action came too late to prevent scattered absences and great inconvenience to employees in several departments of the University...
...decided to become a concert singer. After her concert debut in 1950, she won a few operatic parts (Lucy in The Telephone, Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro), did not really get launched until Herbert von Karajan cast her in the role of Frasquita in a 1955 production of Carmen at La Scala. After that, Sciutti opened every season at La Piccola Scala (La Scala's intimate, 700-seat annex, specializing in rarely done or light operas). Elsewhere, she has shown her great versatility by singing everything from Mozart's Requiem (under Bruno Walter), to a TV performance...
...hide his astonishment at Gibson's volubility ("You or I would take the Fifth Amendment," Hymie told a reporter). Admitting that he knew Carbo shuffled managers and fighters like a deck of marked cards, Wallman nonetheless professed astonishment at "all this stuff about stealing and robbing." ¶Carmen Basilio, broken-nosed ex-middleweight, ex-welterweight champion, who proclaimed himself enraged that men like Carbo and Palermo were ruining boxing, but who restrained "my inner feelings because there are ladies here." ¶Jack Kearns, aging (79) ballyhoo artist who once managed Jack Dempsey, and the moving spirit behind a boxing...
...married to a man 84 years old," she says wistfully. "He has a little money, and-do I get a rest!") Dassin himself, a man with the curious, worldly-otherworldly face of a middle-aged elf, is always amusing to watch. And mercurial Mercouri, a sort of Levantine Carmen Miranda, embodies with phenomenal vitality the philosophical premises of the film: 1) know-how is not necessarily power; 2) money cannot buy anything that really matters; 3) the only way to save the world is to love the people in it and accept them as they...