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...years of debate, negotiations and Utopian dreams, the British government last week gave its final blessing to a project that will physically unite the tight little isle with the European continent. The project: building a tunnel beneath the "great wet ditch" that Britons chauvinistically refer to as the English Channel and Frenchmen call La Manche (The Sleeve). According to the timetable laid out in a government White Paper, on Nov. 15 Britain and France will sign a treaty committing the two nations to support the construction of a 32-mile tunnel between the Kentish village of Cheriton...
...Thomé de Gamond, drew up a scheme for a railway tunnel. Queen Victoria promised De Gamond the blessing of "all the ladies of England" if he could carry it off, but the whole thing was quashed by suspicions that Napoleon III might have in mind a cross-Channel invasion...
...Bank Dick, starring W. C. Fields as Egbert Souse (accent grave over the e), the bank guard. A classic, especially the chase scene at the end. 4:30 p.m. on channel 38. Funny Girl, starring Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice, with Omar Sharif and Walter Pidgeon to back her up. Won lots of Oscars, accolades, etc. 7:30 p.m. on channel...
Evening at Pops, starring Eubie Blake, who is 90-years-old and a ragtime pianist. 8 p.m. on channel...
...Ehrlich's Magic Bullet, starring Edward G. Robinson, reportedly at his finest, as the discoverer of the cure for syphilis. Also Maria Ouspenskaya, who played the gypsy in The Wolf-Man. 7:30 p.m., channel...