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KITTY HAWK TO PARIS: THE HEROIC YEARS (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). A documentary on the daring young men who manned those revolutionary new flying machines during the 24 years between the Wright brothers and Lindbergh's historic journey...
...longer the world, it was the courage, grace and cool proficiency of Colonel Frank Borman, Captain James Lovell and Major William Anders that transfixed their fellowmen and inscribed on the history books names to be remembered along with those of Marco Polo and Amundsen, Captain Cook and Colonel Lindbergh. In 147 hours that stretched like a lifetime, America's moon pioneers became the indisputable Men of the Year...
...moon? Congressman Olin Teague, a member of the House space committee, answers with a question: Why did Lindbergh go to Paris? "He didn't give a damn about Paris," says Teague, "but he gave a damn about how he got there. The same applies to the moon." During a debate about a small appropriation for aircraft research 60 years ago, Teague notes, some Congressmen predicted that the airplane would never contribute anything to the economy and would remain only "a toy for millionaires...
...hard put to select an individual who so dominated the week's stories that he deserved a place on the magazine's cover. "Forget the man of the week," someone finally suggested. "Let's select a Man of the Year." That choice was easy. Charles A. Lindbergh, first man to fly solo across the Atlantic, was clearly the hero of 1927. Thus, almost by accident, Lindbergh became TIME'S first Man of the Year...
...Manhattan last week to receive the National Institute of Social Sciences medal for "distinguished services to humanity," Charles Lindbergh spoke with concern about man's relation to his environment. "In the short period of time after intellect gained domination over instinct," said Lindy, "it has made man the most destructive creature upon earth." Man, Lindbergh complained, now suffers from an "inability to choose the better from the worse in fundamental values." Let us, he pleaded, "agree to preserve some of the natural environment that formed us. It holds the wisdom to which our tyranny of intellect must turn...