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Saturday, December 3 ANIMAL SECRETS (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Bees not only talk but have dialects-to the extent that a Southern European bee's "Honey, child!" might mean "Bitter, baby!" to his Scandinavian cousin. This and other levels of animal communication are explored by Dr. Loren Eiseley in "Messages." THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). When the Honeymooners visit West Berlin, Ralph (Jackie Gleason) and Ed (Art Carney) wind up behind the Iron Curtain where they pose as Soviet dignitaries...
...start selling the group fares on Jan. 1, pending approval by CAB, which is almost certain, and the foreign governments involved, which is not: some may decide that the plan will steal traffic away from their own national airlines. At week's end though, BOAC, Air-India and Scandinavian Air lines System said that they were willing to match Pan Am's deal; other airlines will try to push through an industry wide plan along the same lines, at a meeting of the rate-setting International Air Transport Association in Rome next week...
Merely Honest. When he deals with such famed Scandinavian problems as sex, suicide and alcoholism, Connery often turns into a partisan defender. Scandinavia's much publicized sexual laxity, which in turn produces a high rate of divorce, abortion and venereal disease, cannot be called anything so simple as immorality, he argues: the Scandinavians are merely honest when it comes to sex. "To the Nordic mind, Americans and Englishmen are sexual hypocrites: their pretenses are puritan and Victorian, while their performance is entirely the opposite...
...nation in history," he says. What makes Scandinavia unique, he declares, is that its social benefits have accumulated slowly over almost a century, with no particular impetus in the past three decades. He argues that it is wrong to describe Scandinavia as socialistic. In Sweden, which dominates the Scandinavian busi ness scene, less than 6% of industry is nationalized; the base on which most Scandinavian industry flourishes is still private enterprise...
Levander has the kind of qualifications that win elections in Minnesota. He has a solid record of athletic, scholastic, and business success -- all within the state. He is Swedish -- ethnically perfect for Minnesota's heavily Scandinavian population (though on this score no one can match Rolvaag, this score no one can match Rolvaag; gid pioneer classic Giants In The Earth). Levander also has a reputation for forceful oratory; he was a star schoolboy orator and later taught public speaking...