Word: intrepid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years these intrepid Seekers of the Universe vanquished Klingons and Romulans before falling to the Ultimate Enemy, the Horribly Competitive Ratings War of 1968. At the end of the 1968-69 viewing season, NBC executives officially cut the Enterprise's "five-year mission" down to three years, and dropped the show from the network schedule...
...collections. The best in this vein is Gahan Wilson's gently crafted Nuts (Marek; unpaginated; $4.95), chronicles of growing up. "You who remember how great it was to be a little kid, gang, don't remember how it was to be a little kid," warns Wilson, whose intrepid, chunky comic -strip hero survives a series of boyhood crises. Pilgrim's Regress, edited by Joel Wells (Thomas More Press; 127 pages; $8.95), is a collection of cartoons both secular and otherwordly, selected from the pages of the liberal Catholic journal The Critic. Here a prim stewardess warns...
...intrepid entrepreneur, Joe Conforte, who runs the Mustang Ranch, a legalized bordello outside Reno, took advantage of the uproar to post a sign at his gates saying: "No more Iranian students will be permitted on these premises until the hostages...
...MacMillan Cup is one of the big-boat races on the college racing circuit. The eight intrepid sailors, led by team captain Steve Strittmaller, sailed two masted 44-ft. yawls. The team had never practiced together on the big boats prior to the official pre-race test run but managed to hang on to second place after the first day of sailing. "We were behind Delaware by eight points and there were two more races to go, which is a huge gap," Horn said. Nevertheless, the team closed the gap in the last two races, sailing well enough to edge...
...Patton in 1970-tended to be more spectacular and ambitious. TV is cluttered with World War II documentaries and dramas, ranging from the recent six-hour reprise of Ike's war years to perennial showings of The Commanders. The popular real-life espionage book A Man Called Intrepid is only one that has been translated into a television series. Last September, 80 stations all over the country began regularly feeding out a 25-episode presentation of World War II: G.I. Diary, a journal of obscure heroism. Undoubtedly, however, TV's varied World War II material was highlighted...