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Exploring (NBC, 12:30-1:30 p.m.). Following a nautical theme today, this children's program demonstrates the hornpipe, reads Wynken, Blynken and Nod, talks about navigation, whaling...
After several violent deaths, sundry fornications and an inventively rigged court trial, Author Willingham brings the book to its crowning mockery, a happy ending. The little flowers, pushing up through the mulch of Willingham's Faulkner parodies, Truman Capote parodies and Carson McCullers parodies, nod prettily to each other...
...warm applause even though Catalonia has long been a hotbed of opposition to his rule. Juan Carlos, by contrast, was greeted by only scattered hand clapping and even a few catcalls. At first Franco ignored Juan Carlos, on the way out gave him a brief nod. Later, as Franco toured the muddy, wreckage-strewn towns near Barcelona, the crowds noticed tears in his eyes. Said he at one stop: "In the spring I will return to make sure that the memory of the Dantesque night that fell on this town has been erased...
Marxist Maginot. At the Potsdamer Platz, which was Berlin's Times Square before the Wall truncated it, visiting sightseers mount wooden stands to gawk at the bare, dead city beyond. "In one quick look," they nod, "you can see what Communism is like." Berliners proudly point out each place where the Wall has been breached: eight celebrated holes in the ground where East-West tunnelers surfaced; the spot on the River Spree where 14 East Berliners turned pirate and steered an excursion boat to freedom. On the Wall's grey blocks of compressed rubble they scrawl elaborate imprecations...
...test subjects worked for 4½-hour stretches, then got 1½ hours off for a meal and rest-but no sleep. After two wide-awake nights, the sailors still did well at intellectually stimulating or competitive tasks such as playing chess, darts or pingpong. But they tended to nod at routine and tedious jobs, no matter how simple-like checking a manuscript for typists' errors...