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...Opera. In London and Paris guest appearances, he has been greeted as the most exciting new conductor to come along in years, and at least one critic found him, at 30, "the equal of the greatest." The Vandernoot repertory runs to "Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner, Bartok and the Sacre du Printemps, but not the rest of Stravinsky." A late starter ("I admire people," says he, "who start shivering at the age of three when mother sings false"), Vandernoot first studied the flute, soon found himself slipping off into the woods to conduct an imaginary orchestra of trees with a branch...
...monks of Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey, near Bardstown, Ky., have a thriving mail order business in cheese, fruit cakes, hams, bacon and summer sausage. They are noted for their cheese, which is made according to a secret formula originated at the Trappist monastery in Port du Salut, France, 700 years ago; only two monks at Gethsemani know the secret, the cheesemaker and an apprentice...
After three weeks of turmoil, Belgium still limped along in semiparalysis. Day after day, grim-faced leaders trooped into Laeken Palace to confer earnestly with the young King. Just as regularly, the long, winding procession of strikers set off from the Socialists' headquarters in Brussels' Maison du Peuple to march through the streets in continued protest at the government's economic austerity program. The big steel plants around Liegè, Mons and Charleroi remained dark and empty. In the southern Walloon country, angry strikers set up roadblocks when the gendarmes were not around, hurled four-pronged nails...
Within hours, the Corsican and North African hoods who control Parisian prostitution and crime began oiling their revolvers as they eyed the tempting spoils. Lodged high on the shoulder of Montmartre, just below the soaring domes of the Cathédrale du Sacré-Coeur, the Place Pigalle by day is a dreary, working-class square crowded with Algerians. At night, the square and the nearby alleys blossom into neon brilliance, offer to any passer-by probably the tawdriest and most expansive display of nude female flesh the world has seen since the passing of the Babylonian slave market. Prostitutes...
...Du Pont Show with June Allyson (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). Harpo Marx, in a rare dramatic role, as a death-dogged deaf-mute in Silent Panic...