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Happy to Try. Tall, hollow-eyed Rudolf Hess has been a prisoner ever since the night of May 10, 1941, when he shocked the world by parachuting from a Messerschmitt fighter onto the Duke of Hamilton's estate in Scotland. His mission, he claimed, was to end the war between "the great Nordic nations" Britain and Germany. Hess did not have the approval of Hitler for his peacemaking mission, and indeed was quickly denounced by the Führer as "crazy." Hess remains convinced of the sacredness of his mission. "True, I achieved nothing," he wrote. "I could...
...still standard fare, but Los Angeles has also acquired restaurants that rival the nation's best, such as Perino's, Scandia, the Bistro and Duke's Glenn Cove. New nightspots are proliferating (the most popular: The Daisy and The Other Place); but there is virtually no such thing as nightclub hopping. The clubs are so far apart that, as Actor Peter Falk complains, "You have to pack water," and Los Angeles is an early-to-bed, early-to-rise town where many executives have to be up in time to tune in with New York...
...SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). In a tripleheader, CBS watches 24 surfers competing in the Duke Kahanamoku Surfing championships at Makaha Beach, Hawaii, then covers the North American Gymnastic championships in Montreal, and refreshes football fans' memories with highlights of the Baltimore Colts' 1965 season...
Rutherfurd himself had an intriguing romance as a youth. In 1895 he had been secretly engaged to Railroad Heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt, whose marriage to the Duke of Marlborough was annulled years later by the Sacred Rota of the Roman Catholic Church on the ground that she had loved Rutherfurd but had been forced to marry Marlborough by her domineering mother...
...liveliest new sounds in the park blare out five nights a week from a skating rink, where such stars as Duke Ellington, Judy Collins and The Animals have sold out the 4,250 seats (at $1 each) so often that the producers have had to schedule double performances in 16 shows, are already planning another series next year with expanded seating. Another new attraction is the Manhattan Opera Company, whose English-language productions include an Aida that is set in the present-day South, with Ramfis as Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan and Aida his Ne gro servant...