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Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). A Walk in the Forest, a play about a young student who could be a fine scientist but goes off on a collegiate spree...
...close of their six-week tour of India honoring the 2,500th anniversary of the death of Buddha-and celebrated in a great big way. Picking up $105,000 petty cash one morning at Calcutta's Communist-capitalist Bank of China, the Dalai Lama continued his madcap spending spree. No haggler, the Lama snapped up a $1,300 diamond-studded watch; when told it was a bit costly, he emitted a hearty, innocent laugh. He also amassed some German cameras, Swiss watches, radios and fountain pens, dropped about $3,000 at the races on tardy nags. He drew...
Collector's Spree. The new World House Galleries is the brain child of TV-Station Pioneer Herbert Mayer. 48, who three years ago sold the last of his TV stations* for $8,500,000, took off for a European vacation that soon turned into an art-collecting spree (including the purchase of 51 Rodin sculptures). With a new hobby on his hands, Collector Mayer decided to turn it into a business, set up a network of buying agents and talent scouts. His goal: to exhibit "the best contemporary art from as many nations as create...
...inauguration, the country's two top newspapers, El Comercio and La Prensa, both rapped him hard for breaking the promise. His first yearly budget had just emerged from Congress, at $254.6 million, the fattest in the nation's history and nearly 25% bigger than the last, spending-spree budget of President (1950-56) Manuel Odría, whom Candidate Prado had lambasted as a spendthrift. Old Soldier Odría was often accused of lavishing the taxpayers' soles on the armed forces just to keep the brass contented, but Old (67) Civilian Prado outdid him. Prado upped...
CRACKPOTS ON "BOMB" SPREE...