Time Listings: May 24, 1968

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Wednesday, May 22

THE UNDERSEA WORLD OF JACQUES COUSTEAU (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* The rebroadcast of the opening program, "Sharks," shows flipper-tipped explorers fearlessly aswirl in a terrifying assortment of hammerheads, blue whalers, tiger and white-tipped sharks.

Friday, May 24

THE BIG LITTLE WORLD OF ROMAN VISHNIAK (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Considered one of the foremost photographers of microscopic life, the 70-year-old biologist and zoologist developed a method called "colorization." With this unique process, he transforms scientific subjects into an art show while examining the complex life of microorganisms. Dr. Vishniak's life and work are put under the TV microscope in this color special.

TOMORROW'S WORLD: A NEW ERA IN MEDICINE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Frank McGee reports on some of the techniques being developed to diagnose obscure diseases and to use computers in new ways in medicine. Among those interviewed: Drs. Christian Anfinsen and Edward Evarts of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Leo Tick of New York University, Dr. John C. Seed of Montefiore Center in New York City, and Dr. Jerome Lettvin of M.I.T.

Saturday, May 25

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The Rugby League Cup Final play-off at Wembley Stadium, London. The players don't wear padding, but they do handle the ball, and sports fans will detect some similarity to U.S. football.

Sunday, May 26

NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERT (CBS, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). The fourth of this season's concerts is a "Quiz-Concert," in which Conductor Leonard Bernstein asks the audience (and the viewer who is invited to participate at home): "How Musical Are You?"

Monday, May 27

THE EARLY EVENING NEWS (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.). A look at the little Red schoolhouse. Moscow is the location for this first of a five-part series showing education in the Soviet Union.

Tuesday, May 28

CBS REPORTS: CAMPAIGN AMERICAN STYLE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Can an almost unknown candidate become a potential winner in eight months? Jay McMullen and Eric Sevareid zoom in on "the new politics," to show how public relations, advertising and other image makers can "create" a politician—in this case, Sol Wachtler, now a New York State Supreme Court judge. Last November, he became a manufactured but very real threat to New York's Nassau County Executive incumbent, Eugene Nickerson.

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NET JOURNAL (shown on Mondays).

"From Protest to Resistance." Three advocates of dissent — Mario Savio, who led the Free Speech Movement at the University of California in Berkeley, Black Power Pusher Stokely Carmichael, and David Harris, a full-time antidraft resistance worker—have their say in a program about the new radicalism.

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