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...Football Explosion (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A film-clip history of the Na tional Football League, its great moments and great players...
...tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me nothing personally but headaches," said Shah Mo hammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran to the Na tional Press Club. "During the whole of these 20 years of my reign, I have continually lived under the strain and stress of my duties." In the past two decades, said the Shah, he had been the target of several assassination attempts, been vilified by "elements of international sub version," turned over 90% of his private fortune to be used "for the benefit of my people." As he moved from Washing...
...Overshadowed most of the season by Philadelphia's towering Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, who outscored him 4,029 to 1,436, Boston's lanky Bill Rus sell (TIME, Dec. 22) still won the Na tional Basketball Association's Most Val uable Player award for his sparkling de fensive play. As if to prove that the award was no fluke, Russell held Wilt to 35 points, scored 31 himself while the Eastern Champion Celtics romped over Chamberlain's Warriors, 129-114, in the N.B.A. playoffs...
...done so with no real flair for acting, for it is truer of Tucker than of al most any other tenor that, in the Italian phrase, "the opera is in the throat." What emerges from Tucker's throat is a warm and sensuous voice, vibrant with emo tional fervor, capable of a lyrical legato or a ringing fortissimo. Tucker uses that voice with precise intelligence, lightening and darkening his tone to convey a whole range of feeling. Among the roles that he has not yet sung at the Met are two that contributed to Caruso's fame: Canio...
...greatest obstacle to school reform." Says Rickover in a tendentiously titled new book, Swiss Schools and Ours: Why Theirs Are Better (Atlantic-Little, Brown; $3.95): "I know of no country that has brought off successfully a really thorough reform of the school system without making use of some na tional standard that sets scholastic objectives." Rickover's idea is anathema to those who feel that national standards would lead straight to crippling "federal con trol" and kill the freedom of U.S. schools to compete and experiment as they please...