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...spectacular irregularity of his defense won Aunay the admiration of all of France. Lawyers on the Riviera brought their friends to court to catch a glimpse of him, and Le Figaro, a hard-headed newspaper that is not easily impressed, observed that "Aunay has given a course in swindling." Aunay's judge, unfortunately, was less impressed. He found him guilty on two counts, sent him back to jail for 21 years...
...trouble winning Viet Cong cooperation. After contacting N.L.F. representatives abroad, he made his way to a base camp in the province of Tay Ninh, northwest of Saigon. How he got there, he says, is a military secret. But "after a march through mud and dense jungle," he wrote in Figaro, his first night at the guerrilla encampment seemed "marvelously comfortable"-even though he slept in a ditch under a corrugated iron roof in a driving rain...
...frivolous and more fun-a joke in the middle of a prayer. If you can joke about something very important, you have achieved freedom." Free or not, Paris audiences enjoyed the joke, and so did the critics. "There is a little of everything in this choreographic ceremony," said Le Figaro reverently. "Pure plasticity, provocation, tenderness, violence. But there is above all the imagination of Béjart, more effervescent than ever...
...season. John C. Adams is the most professional and professionally-minded student conductor Harvard has seen in half a dozen years. In addition he has won respect as a solo clarinetist and chamber musician. Daniel Troob, the excellent continuo-player in Adams's superb production of The Marriage of Figaro, was to team up with him again as the soloist in the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23. One glance at the back of the program made it abundantly clear that Adams has accomplished a small coup d'etat in gathering so many of the community's best musicians...
Thursday, October 12 DANIEL BOONE (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). When ole Dan'l sets out to recover some stolen gold for Guest Star Maurice Evans, his Indian buddy, Mingo (Ed Ames) keeps the hijackers occupied with an aria from The Marriage of Figaro. Operation successful...