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ROBERT SCOTT AND THE RACE FOR THE SOUTH POLE (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Filmed on location in Antarctica, a re-creation of Captain Robert Falcon Scott's epic and ill-fated journey to the South Pole...
...tourist attractions and because of acts of vicious vandalism (two boys killed 10,000 in Carter Cave, Kentucky, pulling them off the ceiling and trampling them to death). The Florida alligators are on the decline because of com mercial poachers; the Atlantic sturgeon because of polluted waters; the peregrine falcon because of farmers' pesticides; the dusky seaside sparrow because of the mosquito-control program at Cape Kennedy...
...most basic drives: the hunger for knowledge, the lure of every new frontier, the challenge of the impossible. And that is the legacy left behind by Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee- just as it was by men like Marco Polo, Magellan, Charles A. Lindbergh and Explorer Robert Falcon Scott, whose Antarctic memorial bears an inscription from Tennyson's Ulysses: "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield...
Icky Wine. The center of Julie's life, however, is Daughter Emma (pronounced Emmer by the family), a blue-eyed blonde who most resembles her father. Julie chauffeurs her to nursery school every day in her 1965 Falcon station wagon, and at least one day a week sends the nanny off and takes over completely. The two paint together (Julie took up oils this fall) or belt out duets of Daisy, Daisy, although Emma doesn't like to hear Mummy rehearse-which is why she has to practice while driving to work...
...does man induce this incredible partnership? Affection is lost on these creatures; fear is unknown, punishment useless. Food is the only lure. A falconer first hoods his hawk to keep it calm; he then teases the hungry bird with bits of meat. The hawk may refuse until death or release. If the man wins the contest of wills, and the hawk learns to associate him with food, the bargain is struck and the rest is relatively simple -for a time. A falconer may hunt his hawk for several months, perhaps even six. But sooner or later, almost every hawk returns...