Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under the aegis of programming whiz Fred Silverman, NBC has promised, with great fanfare, to improve its original programming. At ten, I caught a pilot of Mrs. Columbo, a detective series about the wife of the character Peter Falk played. So much for originality. The story, however, was a moderately entertaining formula television mystery--just substitute a new title character and rearrange a few details, and it would have been Barnaby Jones or McCloud...
...Salisbury after September's attack were not repeated last week. Indeed, whites' feelings of vulnerability were further heightened by the experience of the Viscount sent out to survey the RH-827 crash site. Flying low to reduce the risk of being hit by a missile, the pilot felt a slight jar and thought the plane had struck a bird. After it landed, five bullet holes were found in the fuselage...
...week's end a shaky cease-fire arranged by the French had taken hold. Malloum was reportedly holed up in a bunker at Ndjamena airport, where French troops were standing guard. At least four French citizens and a pilot for an American oil company had been killed in the fighting. Some 4,000 white residents, including many of the 230 Americans in Chad, hastened to the airport to board evacuation flights...
...architecture in transportation facilities and services." Several months later, as part of this policy, the Urban Mass Transit Authority gave the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA)--the folks who've been trying to extend the Red Line through Harvard Square--$125,000 to develop one of four national pilot projects...
...ideas. When Brock Adams announced his new policy, he noted that "an investment in the design of transportation can produce humane and pleasant places and improve the quality of out environment." If it's done right, maybe. But if the federal government learns anything from the fledgling Porter Square pilot project, it will hesitate before it lets its checkbook loose in Cambridge again...