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...Cuba, the Roman Circus was on. Radios blared the March of the Sierra Maestra, and orators described the heroic fight in glowing detail. On Havana street corners, groups of prancing militiamen fired their Czech burp guns into the air, and Jeeps draped with hot-eyed youths careened along the avenues. Communist-country correspondents were hustled off to the shell-pocked beachhead to view the wreckage of invasion-U.S.-made mortars, recoilless rifles, trucks, machine guns, rifles, and medium tanks. A few of the 400 captured survivors were shown on TV, while commentators jabbed jubilant questions at them. The government...
...Broadway Carnival! The magic world of a Continental circus comes alive in this pleasant and colorful reprise of the movie Lili. Anna Maria Alberghetti sings engagingly as the waif and Jerry Orbach is a deft puppetmaster, but nimble Pierre Olaf tops the show in a jubilant dance...
Tents & Stables. Always part child, he was fascinated by circuses ("If the world is to have another beginning, let it start next time in a circus tent-a one-poled circus tent") and by prizefights ("I still give and receive in the imagination the blows, bobbing up and down and wincing and setting my teeth"). Horses were another love. "I seem to have been constantly standing in stables admiring horses and listening to wise talk about them. When there are no horses or yachts to give good names to, we will have to give names to our nearest possessions...
...SECRET SPEECH, by John Robinson Beal (138 pp.; Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3.50), is a satiric political fantasy that looks ahead to Khrushchev's overthrow, as explained by his imaginary successor, Comrade Dmitri Pushkov. (Khrushchev's fate is only hinted at: he becomes manager of the State Circus Trust.) Calmly, point by point-in a parody of Khrushchev's own speech in 1956 enumerating Stalin's errors-Pushkov proves to a Communist Party Congress that the man who once had only to pound on a U.N. desk with his shoe to frighten the world has really been...
Highlights of the 1961 Circus (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Arthur Godfrey demonstrates his horsemanship under the Ringling Bros Barnum & Bailey Big Tent...