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Television

Not a Happy One By PETER FORSTER THE most extraordinary com- mercial of all has arrived. It shows a platoon of commandos blowing up a bridge, while a • soft, urgent male voice......

Coming Musical Events

JANUARY 19 (and 23, 26, 30, Feb. 2): Don Carlos (Covent Garden). 19 Macnaghten Concert (Thirtieth Anniversary): works by Stravinsky, Britten, Rawsthorne, Vaughan Williams, etc.......

Records

Divas' Gifts By DAVID CAIRNS THERE are people who cry `canary-fancying' at the men- tion of Sembrich or Bonin- segna, and sweep aside im- patiently the whole cult of the golden......