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Though the visibility of 900 yds. was well within the Vanguard's safety zone and the pilot made the prescribed approach, he announced to the controllers in the airport tower that he wanted to try again. After a second turn, the Vanguard, sinking rapidly, was in a perfect slot for landing. But to the controller's surprise, the pilot suddenly said that he had overshot the runway. Then radio contact broke...
Petty, starting in the No. 2 slot, challenges Allison on the very first turn of the five-eighths-of-a-mile course. The sellout crowd roars in anticipation of a repeat of last year's race when Petty waged a long fender-crashing duel with Allison before pulling ahead to win in the final laps. But Petty, a "charger" who likes to "drive the way I feel it," plays it crafty. Instead of "drafting"−a risky tactic Petty invented, in which he practically sits on an opponent's tail pipe, using the partial vacuum created...
Fans maintain that the constant juggling of the show's time slot was the reason it failed to gain good ratings...
...denies this charge. "We kept switching it to save the show," Robertson said. 'NBC is not in the business of not being successful. We all liked Star Trek and we wanted to see if the show could do better in a different time slot...
...also had internal troubles. Throughout the first season Roddenberry kept firm control of the show, but talk of cancellation prompted him to take more of a background role during the second season. "I told them I would continue to produce it only if we could get a reasonable time slot," he said. "But I couldn't budge them, and I had no choice but to live up to my promise...