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Exploring (NBC, 12:30-1:30 p.m.). An educational smorgasbord for children, including puppets explaining math and astronomy, a re-creation of the Battle of Saratoga in 1777, a small segment of the life and times of the average porpoise, and Actor Eli Wallach reading The Pied Piper of Hamlin...
...amateur pilot. Gordo sat in his father's lap during voyages in an old Command-Aire biplane, took the stick himself by the time he was six. As a teenager, he worked odd jobs around the Shawnee airport to pay for lessons in a J-3 Piper Cub trainer. He was inspired, in part, by stories his father told about two famed acquaintances, Amelia Earhart and Wiley Post. Gordo soloed "officially," he now recalls with a grin...
Today, at 51, Meistermann is not only a first-rank painter but also Germany's master of the stained-glass window (sec opposite page). Though such artists as Matisse and Chagall in France, as well as Abraham Rattner in the U.S. and John Piper in Britain, have helped give this once-neglected art a new prestige, Meistermann is probably the most prolific designer of all. He has done dozens of windows for clubs, chapels, offices and public buildings all over West Germany...
Immediate Need. To an industry that has been stagnating in its own recession for at least two years, all this should have been cause for noisy celebration. But steelmen have had to pay the piper for premature celebrations before, and caution hung over the steel centers like smog. No one could be quite sure how much of the fresh demand was business hedging against the possibility of a strike when labor contracts reopen after April 30. Government steel analysts feel that this fall steel should be able to avoid another tumble like last year's, and hope...
...three days, the exterminators had killed about 6,500 rats outright, and expected another 3,000 to die later as the poison took effect. But each female rat can theoretically produce about 70 offspring every year. Concluded one sanitation official: "What we really need is the Pied Piper of Hamelin...