TELEVISION

Wednesday, September 11 Education in Latin America (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).The problems and progress of education in Latin America, where an estimated 45 million are illiterate, are discussed by a panel of distinguished educators, including Teodoro Moscoso, U.S. coordinator of the Alliance for Progress.

Routes of Freedom (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Alfred Drake, Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne and others trace the development of the theater from its early Greek forms. Filmed in Athens.

Thursday, September 12 The Nurses (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Madlyn Rhue portrays a nurse charged with homicide for deliberately cutting off the medication for her fiance, a staff physician dying of cancer. Repeat.

Friday, September 13 Harry's Girls (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Season premiere of a new comedy series about an American vaudeville team in Europe. Filmed on location and starring Larry Blyden as Harry.

Portrait (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). Sean Lemass, Prime Minister of Ireland, interviewed in his Dublin office.

Saturday, September 14 The Lieutenant (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Season premiere of new dramatic series following the peacetime adventures of a young Marine Corps officer (Gary Lockwood).

Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Gary Cooper, Suzy Parker and Diane Varsi star in Ten North Frederick, the 1958 screen adaptation of John O'Hara's novel.

Sunday, September 15

Face the Nation (CBS, 12:30-1 p.m.). The veteran interview show returns to the air, live from Washington, D.C.

Meet the Press (NBC, 6-6:30 p.m.). Guest is New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Color.

The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The life of Al Smith. Repeat.

The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Season premiere of a new adventure series based on Robert Lewis Taylor's Pulitzer-prizewinning novel. It tells of the cross-country experiences of a young boy and his impractical father in search of gold in 1849.

Grindl (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Imogene Coca plays an itinerant domestic in the premiere of a new comedy-mystery series.

Arrest and Trial (ABC, 8:30-10 p.m.). A new 90-minute format gives Ben Gazzara, detective, 45 minutes to catch the crook, and gives Chuck Conners, defense mouthpiece, 45 minutes to get him off. Anthony Franciosa stars as the crook in the first episode.

100 Grand (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). The fall premiere of a brand new quiz show named for its top take.

Monday, September 16 Monday Night at the Movies (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). William Holden and Jennifer Jones are the lovers in Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing. Color.

Tuesday, September 17 Greatest Show on Earth (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). A new adventure series in which Jack Palance is the ringmaster of a Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus. In this hour-long episode, Harry Guardino plays the role of a lion trainer who endangers his own life as well as that of some female jugglers.

The Fugitive (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). An innocent man forced by circumstance to become a fugitive from the law is the subject of a new dramatic series starring David Janssen. The premiere episode involves the fugitive in the problems of a nightclub's piano entertainer (Vera Miles) and her mentally disturbed husband.

Chet Huntley Reporting (NBC, 10:30-1 p.m.). A report on New York City's Mobilization for Youth program, a project to help the residents of the city's slum areas.

RECORDS

Beethoven: The Nine Symphonies (Berlin Philharmonic; Herbert von Karajan, conductor; Deutsche Grammophon) is an immense but inexplicable accomplishment. Despite the grandeur of the presentation (eight LPs handsomely boxed for $47.98), there is a distance in the orchestra's tone that suggests the microphones were across the street. And despite a near-perfect orchestral performance, Von Karajan brings a spare, skeletal sound to the music. Even the most innocent dynamic embellishments familiar to American audiences are omitted, and the result is a new Beethoven --more tyrannical but less histrionic.

Puccini: Tosco (Leontyne Price, Giuseppe di Stefano, Giuseppe Taddei; Vienna Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan, conductor; RCA Victor) is a flawless recording that achieves every possibility in Puccini's intense score. Von Karajan's conducting demands more from his singers than any but they could give, but by their performances here, each can claim eminence in his role; Price surpasses Callas as the supreme Tosca, and Di Stefano and Taddei match their best past performances as Cavaradossi and Scarpia.

Benjamin Britten: War Requiem (London). In little more than a year, this Mass for two choirs, three soloists, symphony and chamber orchestras has become beyond all question, a modern masterwork. The English text is from the haunting World War I poems of Wilfred Owen, who was killed in action, and the music is a heartfelt memorial to Owen and all the young men of his generation who died with him. Britten conducts the Bach and Highgate School choirs and the London Symphony Orchestra (Vishnevskaya, Pears, Fischer-Dieskau, soloists) in a performance that is both lucidly liturgical and wrenchingly personal.

Brahms: Symphony No. 3 (Command). Like Toscanini, who brought him to the U.S., William Steinberg is proving himself a Brahms interpreter of the first order, and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, now eleven years under his baton, shows itself entitled to a place among the top six orchestras in the country. The Third easily matches in power, precision, tension and tenderness the highly successful Steinberg recording of Brahms's Second two years ago.

Other first-rate recordings from a summer bumper crop:

Schubert: Schwanengesang (Angel). The ranking male voice of lieder, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, with Gerald Moore, his eloquent accompanist.

Richard Yardumian: Symphony No. 1; Violin Concerto (Columbia). The two major works of a promising American composer played by his patron, Eugene Ormandy, and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Maria Callas in Paris (Angel). La Callas, in fresh good voice after two years' silence on records, sings selections from Gluck, Berlioz, Bizet, Massenet, Gounod.

CINEMA

Wives and Lovers. Van Johnson, Janet Leigh, Martha Hyer and Shelley Winters toss around this ball of connubial catnip in sassy style, having fun with the lines but worrying none too much about the deeper meanings of the plot.

A Ticklish Affair. Gig Young is the victim of a trio of scheming boys who decide he would make a nice husband for Mommy (Shirley Jones) and a good--if simple-minded--Daddy for them.

The Small World of Sammy Lee. As the M.C. of a Soho strip joint, Anthony Newley oozes innuendo, juggles illicit deals, and runs runs runs. A satisfactory if often sordid film.

The Leopard. Italian Film Director Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers) has made a remarkable film about the fortunes of a fading princely household in 19th century Sicily. Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon star in this splendid cinematic set piece.

Lord of the Flies. This film version of William Golding's frightening little novel about the existence of original sin buzzes around and finally gets stuck on the flypaper of its own timidity. With not so much as a nod to Golding's chilling allegory, the producers end up with nothing but a scary adventure story about a band of castaway boys high and dry on a desert island.

The Thrill of It All. Doris Day is married, but very little else is changed. Hubby James Garner still has to beg for her favors with champagne and flowers, and as far as Doris is concerned, life is very much the way it was in Pillow Talk and That Touch of Mink.

The Great Escape. Here is James Garner again, this time without Doris Day. But Steve McQueen and an excellent all-male cast join him in this exciting and absorbingly detailed story about a wholesale breakout from a Nazi P.W. camp under the very eyes of heavily armed guards.

Hud. Though Paul Newman is Hud, Brandon de Wilde is the key character in this superb film about a boy who has to choose between two ways of life. Patricia Neal and Melvyn Douglas are splendid too, and the photography by James Wong Howe brings the Texas Panhandle to dusty, sweaty life.

BOOKS

Best Reading

The Group, by Mary McCarthy. Eight little Vassar girls competing hard for heaven. Payne Whitney got one, and then there were seven.

A Kind of Magic, by Edna Ferber. There is no magic here, but bestselling Novelist Ferber's autobiography is full of the fun of a half-century of show business and the literary world.

Visions of Gerard, by Jack Kerouac. Beat Author Kerouac joins J. D. Salinger in the small company of current writers who suggest that a child can be not only innocent but a prism of grace, in this case, to a big, noisy family of French Canadians in the mill town of Lowell, Mass.

The Learning Tree, by Gordon Parks. Like Author Parks, the young hero of this first novel grew up in the Negro end of a small Kansas town. His unabashed nostalgia for what was good there, blended with some sharp recollections of violence and stark fear, makes a readable, sometimes unsettling book.

Cities of the Flesh, by Zoe Oldenbourg. The story of the "Albigensian Crusade," 35 years of human savagery that decimated France's southwestern region of Languedoc during the 13th century.

Cat and Mouse, by Giinter Grass. A boy in Danzig suffers the taunts of his classmates, goes on to win the Iron Cross but never their acceptance.

Night and Silence Who Is Here? by Pamela Hansford Johnson. A deft satire about a rich New England college (which is curiously like a large industrial foundation) and a charming scholar from England who finds that he can't get enough of the subsidized way of life.

Ford: Decline and Rebirth, 1933-62, by Allan Nevins and Frank Ernest Hill. Corporate history does not ordinarily make lively reading, but good research and imaginative treatment produce an absorbing tale of the management blunders of the '30s, the staggering war effort and the brilliant recovery in the late '40s of the Ford Motor Co.

The Nun of Monza, by Mario Mazzucchelli. Based on archives opened six years ago in Milan, this book retells a lurid story that shocked 17th century Italy. It takes 14 years of solitary penitence before Sister Virginia of Monza is finally forgiven for her big mistake in life--a passionate, protracted love affair with a handsome, reckless nobleman.

They Fought Alone, by John Keats. The story of American and Philippine soldiers who stayed--and fought--on Mindanao after the American retreat in 1942.

Best Sellers FICTION

1. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (1 last week)

2. Elizabeth Appleton, O'Hara (2)

3. The Collector, Fowles (7)

4. Caravans, Michener (4)

5. City of Night, Rechy (5)

6. The Glass-Blowers, Du Maurier (3)

7. The Concubine, Lofts (9)

8. Grandmother and the Priests, Caldwell (8) 9. The Group, McCarthy

10. Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey (6)

NONFICTION

1. The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (2)

2. The Whole Truth and Nothing But, Hopper (3)

3. My Darling Clementine, Fishman (1)

4. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope (4)

5. The Day They Shook the Plum Tree, Lewis (5)

6. Terrible Swift Sword, Catton (6)

7. The Wine Is Bitter, Eisenhower (7)

8. Notebooks 1935-1942, Camus (9)

9. Travels with Charley, Steinbeck (8)

10. Portrait of Myself, Bourke-White (10)

*All times E.D.T.

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