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Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). On-the-spot films of the Danish underground at work during World War II, including an interview with Captain Christian Kisling, last leader of Denmark's secret saboteurs...
...closing pages of this novel, the nameless hero stands at the entrance of his room, compulsively clicking the light switch on and off. To his dread, he knows the light is working; yet no glimmer cuts the dense black fog before his eyes; he has gone completely blind. Danish Author Karl Bjarnhof, 61, has an un nerving intimacy with this scene and subject, for, at the age of 19, he lost his sight. The Good Light continues the fictionalized autobiography Bjarnhof began with his remarkable The Stars Grow Pale (TIME, April 28, 1958), taking his hero from boyhood into adolescence...
...objection of the Israeli government that Cairo does not allow its ships to pass freely through the canal.* For a time after the Suez invasion, the Egyptians allowed Israeli cargoes to go through in ships flying the flags of other nations. Then one day last May, Cairo stopped the Danish freighter Inge Toft on her maiden voyage to seize an Israeli cargo; Inge Toft and her crew have sat in Port Said ever since...
...nations descended on Paris, the annual NATO Council meeting had opened. The setting was glossier and glassier than ever before. To replace the sagging "temporary" prefab it has occupied since 1952, NATO now inhabits a six-story, A-shaped (for "Atlantic") building containing $10 million worth of Danish and Belgian furniture, German and Dutch electronics devices, Italian marble, British kitchen equipment, U.S. airconditioning, and (alas) a French telephone system. But as if to prove Parkinson's law of "plans and plants,"* the first sessions in NATO's new headquarters involved a skittish probing of the basic military...
Died. Povl Bang-Jensen, 50, Danish diplomat attached to the United Nations, who was fired from his job for "insubordination"; by his own hand (gunshot); in New York City (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...