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Sviatoslov Richter is beset by a problem that many a pianist would welcome: his audiences refuse to let him go home. Having astounded Carnegie Hall with an all-Beethoven program in making his Manhattan debut (TIME, Oct. 31), Russia's great pianist returned last week to Carnegie to practice his extraordinary technique on works of other composers. The best way to dismiss his audiences, he discovered, was by quietly closing the keyboard of his concert grand...
...elaborately arranged stunt-motor carefully removed from the car, movie camera concealed to catch the mechanic's panicky reaction-was typical of Candid Camera, probably the longest-running practical joke in history. For 13 years, the program (known as Candid Microphone in radio days) has kicked about on the networks, intermittently joined the Jack Paar, Steve Allen, and Garry Moore TV shows. This season. Candid Cameraman Allen Funt is back on the air (CBS) with a new half-hour show that features Ar thur Godfrey and Singer Dorothy Collins (the girl in the motorless car) as fellow cards, plus...
Ramble in Reality. "When the program first started," recalls sometime Adman Funt, "we used to just ramble in reality." But gradually the show got more complicated and developed a kind of comic-strip surrealism. A stooge would enter a florist's shop, order orchids and then eat them to the consternation of other patrons. Or Funt, in the guise of a barber, would say, "You know, this is the first time I ever shaved a man." Once a customer threw off the sheet, chased Funt with a razor. "You can only aggravate a guy so far," he discovered. "Beyond...
...push, Grolier will offer the machine to industry for technical job training, has 70 ex-school superintendents as salesmen to talk up its merits to school boards. For Grolier, second largest U.S. encyclopedia publisher (after Field Enterprises), the diversification into teaching machines is the next step in an expansion program that in the last decade has boosted sales from $20 million to an estimated $77 million this year...
Grolier's Min-Max is loaded with a "program" of information and questions and answers that instruct the student as he works. The first question appears in a window at the top of the box, and a blank space is provided in another window for the student to write out his answer. When he is finished, he inserts his pencil eraser in a vertical slot, moves the page up until the second question and the answer to the first appear in the window. The paper cannot be moved backward to find the answer first...