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...numbers: a rollicking, Shakespeare-inspired romp called One More Gaudy Night, and Visionary Recital, a somewhat murky exposition on the three faces of Delilah (Awakener, Betrayer, Seducer) in which Martha Graham (as Awakener) triumphed over her 67 years with a modicum of disciplined effort. Neither of them was topflight Graham but both were performed with top-drawer skill that kept overflow audiences applauding long after the curtain came down...
Project directors insisted that only pure coincidence had produced one finalist each from the Marines, Air Force and Navy. The big three, they said, were selected after 22 months of training and study during which scientists, psychologists and engineers carefully graded their performances. Topflight test pilots all, the astronauts dived into a program that included instruction in astronautics, ballistics, trajectories, fuels, guidance, basic aviation medicine, orbital flight hygiene, space environment, astronomy, meteorology, astrophysics and geography. Along the way, they were guinea-pigged into hot chambers and cold, wild rides in 20-G centrifuges and in disorientation machines that whirled them...
Perry Como's Music Hall (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Perry's visitors this week include Songstress Janet Blair and the topflight comedy team of Mike Nichols and Elaine May. Color...
...Westerners, he said, nothing can prevent Israel from "developing into a Levantine state." World Jewry owes Israel a debt, he declared, because "there is no doubt that the state has straightened the backs of Jews in every country. ' Ben-Gurion was especially annoyed because not one topflight U.S. Zionist leader has settled down in Israel, and because immigration from the West has never been more than a trickle. "In the free and prosperous countries," warned Ben-Gurion, Judaism "faces the kiss of death, a slow and imperceptible decline into the abyss of assimilation!" Ben-Gurion, whose devotion to Judaism...
General della Rovere (in Italian). Roberto Rossellini's first topflight film since Paisan (1946) tells the moving story of a petty larcenist, skillfully played by Vittorio De Sica, who through wartime suffering becomes the hero he was forced to impersonate...