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...AGES OF MAN (CBS, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). Part I (with Part II next week) of Sir John Gielgud's one-man Shakespeare program, which strutted its hour upon a Broadway stage seven years ago and now happily can be heard once more...
...victory earned Kidd the Adelboden combined title. More important, it boosted his personal score after two meets to 60 points-20 more than his closest individual competitor, four more than the combined teams of Austria and Italy. So far at least, the U.S.'s one-man gang was No. 1 in the world...
Technically, T.T.K. quit. In fact, he was sacked for possessing a personality incompatible with those of Shastri and his other ministers. A brilliant, impatient holdover from Nehru's Cabinet, Krishnamachari ran the country's finances as a one-man show, imposed harsh restrictions on the foreign firms in India, and conducted a running fight with the World Bank, which criticized his policies as too restrictive. Contemptuous of his colleagues, he called one minister a "constipated cockroach," advised another to return to teaching, and held back on allocations of foreign exchange for much needed fertilizer largely out of dislike...
...widow but the assassin himself. Accompanied by thumping kettledrums, 007 methodically works the villain over with karate punches and a well-placed kick, then strangles him to death. A clatter of cymbals brings on a gang of bodyguards as 007 bounds onto a balcony, coolly dons his one-man rocket unit and goes whooshing up, up and away to a shattering chorus of gunfire and screeching trumpets...
...urging the abolition of the Electoral College, Freund, who is Carl M. Loeb University Professor, called presidential elections "a clear case for the one-man, one-vote principle...