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...EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 3-4 p.m.). "Passport to Prague," a bilingual (English-Czech) love story filmed on location in Prague...
...Piatigorsky's full-throated cello conducts a civilized but passionate conversation with the violins of Heifetz, Israel Baker and Joseph de Pasquale and Jacob Lateiner's piano. In fact, all five musicians have a meticulous sympathy for Dvorak's buoyant chamber work, which is permeated by Czech folk music, or dumka ("little thought"), the unpretentious but satisfying Slavic themes that delighted Dvorak. The Françaix String Trio, on the other side, has little to offer but excellent musicians giving their best to Françaix's 1933 neoclassical piece...
...they continually reminded viewers that they were seeing "a sports exclusive," "a really fantastic shot," and "superb coverage." Nonetheless, it was the picture that told the story, and during the first two days it was mostly a sad tale of the young U.S. hockey team being trounced by the Czech and Swedish teams. U.S. Skater Peggy Fleming cut a fine figure on the ice, but about the only good thing the announcers could say about the U.S. hockey team came during a skirmish with a Czech player: one of the Americans got "a light left jab in there...
...hall, a black-tie audience at the inaugural concert found the setting pleasing enough. Composer Gunther Schuller conducted his new Fanfare for St. Louis to start things out in properly noisy fashion, and Conductor de Carvalho (who relinquishes his post at the end of the season to Czech-born Conductor Walter Susskind) made further agreeable noise with Benjamin Britten's The Building of the House and Stravinsky's Petrouchka. Some complained that the acoustics were somewhat plushy and over-resonant but at any rate preferable to the bounce of basketball against iron...
...Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess. There, behind double rows of concrete walls and steel fences, Gehlen plotted some of the crucial undercover moves of the cold war. He recruited agents throughout Eastern Europe, even had a minister in the East German government in his employ, smashed a Czech-run spy ring in West Germany and provided the West with a realistic assessment of Soviet power that helped the U.S. to call Soviet bluffs over Berlin. The Central Intelligence Agency regarded Gehlen as one of its best investments...