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...results could make a cardiac case out of a cuttlefish. In Rock du Coeur, the heart thuds (behind an electric guitar, a clavichord and drums) like a bass fiddle muffled in cotton wool. In Cha-Cha du Coeur, the heart sounds louder, its labors interrupted now and then by whispered "cha cha chas." The effect on the listener, noted France-Soir, was to create "a kind of obsession, almost anxiety." But Paris cats were buying the record briskly last week, and other record makers are sure to approach Model Guillenette with stethoscopes in hand; nobody, she said...
...Roman Aristocracy. But the most surprising contribution was a half-hour gem of erudition, illustrated with colored slides, on The Iridescent Colors of Hummingbird Feathers. Author: Crawford H. Greenewalt, 57. whose excursions into advanced ornithology are somehow sandwiched into his workaday duties as president of massive E.I. du Pont de Nemours...
...adapting Cervantes' work for last week's Du Pont Show of the Month (CBS), TV Writer Dale Wasserman caught the tragic essence of Don Quixote's comic role. In a tricky but effective device, he fused author and hero into one character, and let both proclaim: "To dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe, and never to stop dreaming or fighting-this is man's privilege and the only life worth living." Viewers and critics inclined to snicker at such idealism missed the point of a fine TV drama whose central theme...
...firing is rarely necessary. Du Pont has treated 900 problem drinkers under its program. The cure rate: 66%. The cost: less than $100 per rehabilitation...
...Du Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Lee J. Cobb plays both knight and servant in I, Don Quixote, a modern version of Cervantes' classic...