Word: circusing
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...landed, picked out a sequin-spangled man and woman dangling from it. The couple waved, the crowd applauded, and a troupe of animal trainers, tumblers, clowns and acrobats raced into the arena to applaud back. As the Sputnik beeped back into orbit among the rafters, the famed Moscow circus cut loose with its spectacular show for the first time in the Western Hemisphere...
...this kind of laughing, guard-down approval, the U.S.S.R. is footing the circus' whole $150,000 South American travel bill. The weekly 0 Cruzeiro announced it was well aware that the show was an "instrument of Soviet penetration," but added that "a circus is always welcome anywhere on earth, and the Moscow circus is certainly welcome here.'' Next targets: Argentina, Chile, Peru...
...Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).-Richard (Have Gun) Boone takes off his shooting irons and gets tricked up as a circus "Charlie" (clown). Naturally, un der the makeup, he is another Pagliaccio...
...bring back the idea of a picture, he hung canvas tatters in front of his paste-ups. Then he moved the tatters forward and installed lights behind them. Suddenly he had a stage, and so he brought on "happenings," something like the incidents children contrive for an improvised circus. The idea took hold, and happenings have been put on around the world in the past year...
...Arthur Murray Party for Bob Hope (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). In the manner of a Circus Saints and Sinners meeting, an all-star goon squad gathers to "roast" Hope, celebrating his tenth year...