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...Gets Slapped, based on the play by Leonid Andreyev. He wrote The Crucible in one year, in the study of his 14-room house in Nyack, N.Y., and just finished in time. As curtain time approached, he was feeding the score to the singers five pages at a clip. The time is ripe for good opera, Ward believes, but he deplores the tendency-exemplified in Alban Berg's Wozzeck-to shift the dramatic emphasis from singers to orchestra. "Everything must happen in the voice," says Ward. "Opera belongs on the stage, not in the orchestra...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A film-clip biography of Al Smith...
...pound senior by the name of Tom Vasell quarterbacking their wing T offense. He's the guy who completed 16 passes for 219 yards against Harvard last year to set the Ivy League record for completions in a single game. This year, he's been throwing at a near.600 clip with 21 completions out of 25 attempts for 263 yards and a touchdown...
...Left to Be Right. As Colonial Secretary, Iain Macleod liquidated African colonies at a clip that would soon have liquidated the Colonial Office. Diehard imperialists argued that he was selling the white man down the river, but Macleod's policy was built on bedrock Tory principles: duty and realism. With most young Britons, he believes Whitehall has a responsibility to bring the colonies to mature independence and membership in a multiracial Commonwealth. Pragmatically, he knows well that no force on earth can halt the tide of nationalism. But Macmillan realized that if Macleod had stayed on, his colonial policies...
...called his car the Standard Swallow (and quickly shortened it to simply the "S.S."). To avoid the onus the Nazis had given to the initials SS, Lyons in 1945 changed the company's name to Jaguar. Production has risen from 250 a week in 1950 to the current clip of about 530, and Jaguar's sales to the U.S. have jumped from 912 in 1950 to an anticipated 7,500 this year...