Television: Jan. 17, 1964

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Wednesday, January 15 CHRONICLE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* The major scientific breakthroughs since 1948 discussed by Astronomer Gart Wester-hout, Maser Inventor Charles H. Townes, Geologist Bruce Heezen, Nobel-Prizewinning Physicist Chen Ning Yang, Nobel-Prizewinning Biochemist Severe Ochoa and Scientific American Publisher Gerard Piel.

Thursday, January 16 DR. KILDARE (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Yvette Mimieux makes her TV debut as an epileptic with a compulsion for surfing. KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATER (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Gloria Swanson as an eccentric recluse suspected of murdering her six-year-old daughter.

Friday, January 17

THE BOB HOPE CHRISTMAS SHOW (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). Highlights of Hope's Christmas tour of U.S. military bases in Turkey, Greece, Tripoli, Libya and Italy.

Saturday, January 18 ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The National Figure Skating championships in Cleveland.

Sunday, January 19

NBC OPERA COMPANY (NBC, 2-4 p.m.). Lucia di Lammermoor in English, with Linda Newman, Michael Trimbel and Richard Torigi. Color.

ONE OF A KIND (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). A special on the Creative Writing Center at Stanford University featuring an interview with Director Wallace E. Stegner.

TWENTY-THIRD BING CROSBY NATIONAL PRO-AMATEUR GOLF TOURNAMENT (NBC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Conclusion of the 72-hole event at the Pebble Beach (Calif.) Golf Club.

TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A documentary on the invasion of Sicily in World War II.

THE ART OF COLLECTING (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A tour through the private art collections of Nelson Rockefeller, Robert Lehman, Norton Simon, Alexander Girard and John Denman, with interviews of the collectors and narration by Aline Saarinen. Color.

Monday, January 20

EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Alan Arkin in a drama called "The Beatnik and the Politicians."

THEATER

On Broadway THE CHINESE PRIME MINISTER. In a triumph of style over substance, this drawing-room comedy pours some intellectual eyewash about old age as if it were Dom Pérignon. But Playwright Enid Bagnold writes with unfailing grace and literacy, and Margaret Leighton is an actress who can do no wrong.

MARATHON '33, by June Havoc, blends clowns, music, lacerated feet and shrieking nerves to prove that life is a grueling test rather like a 3,000-hour dance marathon. In this strange spectacle that suggests new directions for the U.S. theater, Julie Harris

is put to the test, and her unsparing, childlike ardor makes this one of her finest performances.

NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS, by Ronald Alexander. An engaging heel of a writer-producer who even bounces jokes off his twelve-year-old daughter, Robert Preston impersonates a TV "genius" whose career is a castle of balloons—when one is popped, the escaping hot air just fills another.

BAREFOOT IN THE PARK, by Neil Simon. Newlyweds Elizabeth Ashley and Robert Redford are a handsome enough couple to model for any refrigerator ad, but their apartment—and its visitors—are mad, mad, mad, mad, mad.

THE PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE. Under dingy eaves, or in front of bookcases chockful of texts, Playwright Peter Shaffer sees the awkward and funny, stuffy and tender sides of people searching for love.