Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though ABC and NBC have also stepped up their coverage of offbeat stories, neither so far has matched Kuralt's diversity or unabashed do-goodness. In Holbrook, Mass., he told of a fund drive for the infant son of a Navy pilot who, by diverting his crippled jet away from a school and residential area, sacrificed his own life. In Westerville, Ohio, Kuralt interviewed John Franklin Smith, 87, who upon retiring as a teacher at Otterbein College stayed on as a janitor; the old man remarked that he was still "looking ahead" because there were so many "good books...
...Perry-Link Deep Diver, a 22-ft., 8¼-ton submersible that can operate at a depth of 1,350 ft. for as long as twelve hours, moving up, down, forward, backward and sideways. It has a forward pilot's compartment and a separately pressured divers' compartment that enables it to discharge and pick up divers far below the water's surface. When pressure in the divers' compartment has been built up to equal the water pressure outside, a hatch drops open, enabling the divers to depart. When they come back, they can eat and rest...
...sobering digression of the film should especially interest American audiences. Greene interviewed a U.S. fighter-bomber pilot, a major, who had been shot down 11 days previously. The major, with his right leg and left arm severely fractured, lay in a hospital bed, and talked about the war. Nervous, with his face showing the strain, he said he hoped the war could be "terminated"--he spoke almost throughout in military jargon. He said he agreed with the "Kennedy, Fulbright, Mansfield position," that we "need to take another look in regards to our Vietnamese policy." What about draft-card burners...
Lowenstein, while a professor in 1963 at North Carolina State, was one of the prime movers behind a black Mississippi "mock election" which gave birth to the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). The election also served as a pilot project for a student movement which was later called the Mississippi Freedom Summer. The publicity which a group of about 50 college volunteers mainly from Yale and Stanford received in their hometown newspapers for their participation in the "mock election" prompted Lowenstein and one or two others to organize the "Freedom Summer" project which sent 600 campus volunteers to Mississippi. Lowenstein...
...easy to fall into the trap of believing the myths we created for world TV. Once Transania claimed they had shot down a New Zenith plane, and had captured the pilot. Five minutes later they "discovered" that it was really one of their own planes they had hit by mistake, but by that time New Zenith had accepted the "truth" of their accusation, and was claiming that it had been a Hamil plane with New Zenith markings, flown by a New Zenith defector...