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Sunday, March 1 DISCOVERY (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Second part of a visit to Moscow, including children's ballet classes, the Obratsov puppets, Popov the clown, and performing animals...
TRIALS Hung Jury For the eleven days of his trial, Byron De La Beckwith, 43, accused killer of Mississippi N.A.A.C.P. Leader Medgar Evers, performed more like a circus clown than a defendant in a first-degree murder case. Constantly shooting his French cuffs, he propped his feet up on a nearby chair, swigged soda pop, glowered at Negro news men, hallooed to white spectators, was once restrained by a bailiff from saun tering over to the jury box to chat with his peers, and with the exaggerated Southern courtliness upon which he so much prides himself, even offered cigars...
Songs & Toasts. Charles de Gaulle has called him "the clown in a cassock." But mustard-making Dijon loves him. The city has happily elected him mayor and Deputy to Parliament for 18 years. Last week, on his 88th birthday, his desk was piled high with congratulatory messages. The band of the local infantry regiment turned up at town hall to serenade him with Burgundian drinking songs, and everyone joined in a toast-a kir, of course...
Died. Joe Weatherly, 41, national stock-car racing champion for 1962 and 1963 (last year's earnings: $58,110), a 17-year veteran who was known as "The Clown Prince" for his practical jokes, scorned the shoulder harness 80% of stock-car racing drivers wear, saying "when my time comes, no piece of rag's gonna save me"; of head and chest injuries inflicted when his 1964 Mercury crashed into a retaining wall during a race; at Riverside, Calif...
...clown in Carol Channing sometimes upstages the actress, but this show thrives on her kind of showoff. David Burns may be the only man alive who can bark through his nose. Gower Champion keeps the choreography winging. His agile, toe-perfect dance company spends so much time off the ground that it should get flight...