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...FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX. Survival seems more urgent than usual when James Stewart, Richard Attenborough and a cynical crew crawl out of a plane crash in the Sahara and try to patch up their differences long enough to jerry-build a one-engined getaway plane from the wreckage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 11, 1966 | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

...that if I wouldn't go along with him, he'd take me out in the desert and bury me." The police told him to go along with Bailey. They then staked out the Firestone house, even went so far as to rent for Skalla a getaway car that he had been assigned to steal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Missing the Cue | 1/21/1966 | See Source »

...from U.N.C.L.E. seemed to have found the right spoofing approach; even with reruns, U.N.C.L.E. managed during the summer to stay up in the top ten. But oh what sins producers commit when they begin to counterfeit. ABC's Jane Bond, Honey West (Anne Francis) has all the getaway gadgets -including tear-gas earrings and a garter that converts to a gas mask-but she has not a chance of escaping the banalities of her script. CBS's The Wild, Wild West and Ulysses S. Grant ("The nation is in a pot of trouble, boy") enlist Major James West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Overstuffed Tube | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

...them innocent Vietnamese pedestrians, were killed, and 190 were hurt. The motor-scooter driver had raced out of the blast area, was shot twice and arrested by pursuing police. He claimed he was a hired helper, that he had been paid $139 by the Viet Cong to offer getaway transportation for the bomber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Outrages like This | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

...Volkswagen Micro Buses. Keaton, chased by the law, dashes in and out of a whole lot full of Ford buslets, finding pies in one and hurling them into the cops' faces while nickelodeon music plays and oldtime titles point out things like "easy loading and unloading" and "fast getaway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Selling Point | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

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