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What, UNESCO wanted to know, do the people of eight countries think of other nations and of themselves? Pollsters, armed with pencils and a wide range of adjectives (samples: hardworking, conceited, cruel, brave, peace-loving), set out in the U.S., England, France, Italy, West Germany, Australia, Holland, Norway.
Italian radio listeners are in full revolt. Not only are they injured by a tax of nearly $4 a year for each set, they are also insulted by virulent commercials. Last month, the Association of Italian Radio Listeners (200,000 members) sued Radio Audizioni Italiane, the government-controlled monopoly which...
At one point in La Bohème, Rodolfo, the tenor lover, sings out: "Who am I?-I am a poet ... In poverty I yet indulge myself like a Grand Seigneur in rhymes . . ." When Richard Tucker sings those lines he can partly mean them: in his eight years at the...
Other expeditions had sounded the deeps and found that the deepest one, the Philippine Trench off the east coast of Mindanao, lies more than six miles beneath the surface of the sea. But no one had brought up samples from the deeps. Many scientists thought that their dark, cold water...
The man-in-the-street had his say about the presidential campaign last week and left the situation at least as muddied as before. On Candid Camera, Allen Funt's TVersion of his Candid Microphone, Doubletalk Artist Dick Christman swapped opinions with representative members of the electorate. Samples: