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Exploring (NBC, 12:30-1:30 p.m.). A reading of Rumplestiltiltskin by Peter Ustinov and a performance with hoops by the Finnish Girls Gymnastic Team. Color...
Saturday, January 19 Exploring (NBC, 12:30-1:30 p.m.). This week this excellent children's program has everything from a Finnish gymnastics team to a short history of American railroads, but particularly a reading of Rumpelstiltskin by Peter Ustinov...
...House Motel in San Diego, waiters are dressed in 17th century costumes as British naval officers, and macaws shrill from cages as guests swim in one of the largest pools in Southern California. Other motels offer kennels for dogs, fulltime butlers, free sewing kits, cookout facilities, bowling alleys, masseurs, Finnish saunas...
...main event at the festival was not on the program. On the night before the opening, in the city's main streets, crowds of Finnish teen-agers silently gathered around several buses loaded with delegates. Someone threw a stone through a bus window, someone else heaved a beer bottle, and in a flash the scene turned into a full-scale riot. White-capped police used truncheons to subdue the antiCommunists, even roughed up Police Chief Erik Gabrielson (whom they failed to recognize in a business suit). Soviet Poet Evgeny Evtushenko, a member of the Moscow delegation, was so upset...
...serious international incident. Clearly it was up to nimble neutralist President Kekkonen (who has two cars in his garage, a Cadillac and a ZIS) to say he was sorry about the whole thing. Sternly he denounced the "irresponsible behavior of youth circles in the capital." Irresponsible or not, Finnish youth had revealed the ingrained anti-Russian bitterness that lies beneath the veneer of Finnish neutrality. It is a vivid memory that many of the delegates will be taking home with them when the festival ends this week. Not that all of them are going home; 14 East German delegates...