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Major problem of the new technique: nobody can control the javelin's direction. Around and around it goes, and where it lands, nobody knows. No spectator is safe. Other javelineers are outraged. Said Czech Olympic Star Dana Zatopekova: "If this method is accepted, I will personally break my javelin and use it as supports for tomato plants." So far, the Olympic authorities have been too amazed to pronounce final judgment. But as of now nobody can find anything in the rules against...
Seven years ago, NBC had no opera company and wanted none. Sponsors considered TV opera poison to listener ratings. Then in 1949 a Czech-born conductor named Peter Herman Adler got together with NBC's General Music Director Samual Chotzinoff. The reason the ordinary listener did not appreciate opera, they argued, was that he could not understand the words and the stilted acting made the whole thing seem ridiculous. "If we don't understand the singer's words," says Adler, "we cannot know whether he acts or even sings in accordance with them. And the moment...
...part about the Aswan Dam offer was that it was ever permitted to turn into a game. Here the Nasser regime certainly deserves blame--especially for putting out false rumors of a mythical Soviet offer. But it was Washington which decided, after Egypt's purchase of Czech arms, that Nasser would have to go. To topple his regime, Nasser's major plan for economic development was insultingly rejected, and Washington waited. There is strength in this case, and Dulles' biggest gamble may yet pay off. The West must not forget that it is not playing with a dictator...
World Music Festivals (Sun. 2:05 p.m., CBS). First U.S. broadcast of the Czech Philharmony. Conductor: Karel Ancerl...
From the copper mines of Sikkim to the oilfields of Assam, Russian traders and technicians traipsed through India last week, offering cut-rate rubles, big-brotherly advice and back-scratching barter deals. Czech engineers mapped roads in the mountainous north. East German technicians scouted sites for India's first raw film factory. In central Bhilai, Russian specialists supervised construction of a steel mill for which Russian moneymen had advanced some $100 million at 2½%, about half the interest rate proposed by Western lenders...