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...streams for their first baths of the year. Nearly every visitor to penetrate the forbidden land has been enchanted by its people. They do few things terribly well, but everything with zest. Explorer Fosco Maraini believes they have found the secret of liberty, which is "to live like a flower or a stone; sheltering from the rain in bad weather, enjoying the sun if it is fine, breathing in the fullness of the afternoon, the sweetness of evening, the mysteriousness of night, with equal joy and wisdom. Perhaps that is why you hear singing everywhere, fine music that fades away...
...exercising their ids. The lords of the Blue Forest are really a remarkable group of puppets created by ex-Actor George Nellé, 34. and Writer-Director Don Kane, 30. As Hostess Brigid and her small guests sit by and offer advice, creatures named Tugnacious R. Jones and Myrtle Flower ("She's an Eloise type") join an old, nasal-voiced wizard in such projects as constructing a popcorn machine that will not stop popping, and making a sewing machine that turns out marbles...
...mountain 28 miles northwest of Madrid last week assembled the flower of Franco Spain-Cabinet ministers, generals, admirals, all of the nation's four cardinals, 37 of its bishops, six mitered abbots, and the Papal Nuncio. Occasion for this august gathering: the dedication of the Valley of the Fallen, the striking $12 million monument to Spain's Civil War dead that workmen have been hewing out of solid rock since 1941 (TIME color, Jan. 26). By no coincidence, it was also the anniversary of the day in 1939 when the last pockets of Republican resistance collapsed in Madrid...
...Flower Drum Song. A melting-pot musical about Chinese-Americans, routinely but deftly stirred by Rodgers & Hammerstein...
This is the Pirates' year, however, as Branch Rickey's building process, which began eight years ago, will flower this season. The Bucs made a good run at Milwaukee last year, but if they had won, it would have been somewhat of a fluke. Thanks to the key trade this winter that brought to them a catcher who could hit, a steady left-hand starter, and a good third baseman all in exchange for an excellent third baseman, a Pirate victory this year would be no fluke...