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Invitation to Music (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Recordings of the Danish State Radio Symphony, conducted by Denmark's King Frederick...
Countries that will be included in this program include: Australia, Austria, Belgium and Luxemburg, Burma, Denmark, Egypt, France, Greece, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, Turkey, the Union of South Africa, the United Kingdom, and West Germany...
Operation Mainbrace, the NATO sea exercise (TIME, Sept. 22), ran into foul weather off the Norwegian coast last week. The allied fleets broke off operations in the north, headed south into Kiel Bay to interdict a simulated enemy attack across the Kiel Canal into Denmark. Since the east end of the canal is only 40 miles from the East German frontier, Mainbrace's planes were unarmed and the pilots were sternly warned to avoid Soviet territory...
This is the fictitious situation set for Operation Mainbrace, NATO's first big naval exercise. Mainbrace was conceived last year by General Eisenhower to convince NATO's Scandinavian members (Norway and Denmark) that their lands can be defended in the event of war with Russia. One morning last week, 85 men-of-war (including the U.S. carriers Midway, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Wasp, the Royal Navy carrier Eagle and battleship Vanguard) steamed in stately grey lines out of the Firth of Clyde. On the F.D.R.'s bridge, Skipper George W. Anderson made an announcement...
...operation continues, carrier planes will strike at Bodo in northern Norway to drive the enemy back. Then the fleet will turn south to hit the aggressors near the Kiel Canal, while U.S. marines establish a beachhead in Denmark. By the time the two-week exercise is done, the imaginary enemy will inevitably have been defeated. The real one will have had, at least, a good show of strength...