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Though it does insist on this shadow-boxing with Symbol and Idea, Bergman's film remains a thrilling experience for its technically perfect rendition of the mysterious. As a work of surface brilliance, The Magician represents Bergman at the zenith of his considerable powers...
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Zenith International), the work of Alain Resnais, a 37-year-old director of documentary films (Van Gogh, Night and Fog), is the acknowledged masterpiece of the New Wave of Gallic moviemakers (TIME, Nov. 16). The picture won a special prize at the Cannes Film Festival last spring and has been acclaimed in France as "a thousand films in one": an atomic horror movie, a pacifist tract, a Proustian exercise in recollection, a radioactive Romeo and Juliet. As a matter of fact, it is all these things and more-an intense, original and ambitious piece of cinema...
...Heartened by reports from the Toronto suburb of Etobicoke, where International Telemeter Corp. is trying toll television (TIME, March 14) in competition with three regular channels from Buffalo and two from Toronto, Chicago's Zenith Radio Corp., in association with RKO General, is asking the FCC for permission to make a similar test in Hartford...
...TEST, first major one in U.S. to be broadcast instead of transmitted over a closed circuit, will be started in Hartford, Conn, on station WHCT, if FCC approves. Operators: Zenith Radio Corp. and the broadcasting subsidiary of General Tire & Rubber...
...Hugh Downs may have reached his zenith the night that Paar took the powder. Before Hugh was through (looking straight into the camera, he implored: "Jack, come back"), not a viewer in 5,000,000 could doubt that he had watched a masterful high-wire artist solemnly treading his dangerous way between Paar and NBC. Taking over for Paar was another, even more demanding matter. In the past, affable Hugh served as an excellent, soothing contrast to Paar's suppressed frenzy and suavely spread oil on troubled waters. Without Paar, only the oil remained. Filling in for the boss...