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...VOICE OF THE DRAGON (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). To illustrate this documentary on mass indoctrination by the Chinese Communists, NBC bought extensive film footage from a French camera crew that spent four months in Red China...
...Alkan had to perform his works in public, I'm sure he would have been kinder to himself," says Lewenthal, whose impulsive, steel-wristed style of playing is just right for Alkan. For him the concert stage is an arena, his mission "to slay the black dragon with the 88 gleaming teeth." To create the "proper atmosphere," he has the lights dimmed until he is little more than a silhouette on stage. A tall, hulking figure with a luxuriant growth of swept-winged black hair, he almost leaps off the bench to hammer home a fistful of crashing chords...
Obviously, it is more than Alkan's music that drives Lewenthal toward the dragon; there is a sense of kinship with Alkan himself. "The life of Alkan," he says, "was full of galling disappointments and frustrations, of which its end was its most decisive event...
Some 70 miles to the south, the Reds mounted another regiment-size assault -this time on the district capital of Tuy An. A relief force hit the traditional Communist ambush but backed away quickly to let "Puff the Magic Dragon" take charge. One of the squadron of slow-circling C-47 transports converted by the U.S. Air Force, the plane harassed the Reds with its three General Electric-built "Miniguns"-six-barreled super Catlings that can deliver up to 6,000 rounds of 7.62 mm. slugs a minute. Flying in increasingly widening circles, one Puff can slash a swatch...
...offered us Cokes, he apologized and explained again that he doesn't drink. "I can't afford to," he says, "with everything that's wrong with me, I'd be dead in a year." Bob Dylan, Dennis insists, writes "his meaningless songs when he's high. 'Puff the Magic Dragon' is about pot, you know? Lived by the sea--that's cocaine, you know...