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...trouble in the press corps began when correspondents, covering the U.N. negotiators' take-off for the preliminary Kaesong meeting, were barred from the helicopter area by a barbed-wire fence and armed guards. There was no press camp, no food, and information was scarce...
...little (4O-ft.) white Skyrocket had waited a long time for its day of glory. Built as a Navy experimental ship, it made its first take-off from Muroc's long, dry lake bed almost three years ago. Even then it could crack through the sonic barrier, but for a supersonic research ship, its performance was unspectacular. The stubby little rocket-powered Bell X-1 had already been dropped from the belly of a B29, and had carried its pilot close to twice the speed of sound (TIME, April 1, 1949). By comparison the newer Skyrocket dawdled...
Time for Ernie (weekdays, 3:15 p.m., NBCTV) undertakes the strenuous job of parodying the antics of daytime TV. Wearing a pitch helmet and waving a cigar, Funnyman Ernie Kovacs does a take-off on a weather reporter, plugs a nonexistent beer called Lost (for the sake of the slogan: "Get Lost!"). More slapstick than satire, the show, unsponsored for obvious reasons, winds up sounding dangerously close to the real thing...
...Henry Morgan Show (Fri. 9:30 p.m., NBCTV) began three months ago as a take-off on TV amateur hours. Last week, abandoning such zany performers as talking dogs, stilt-walkers and bicep-dancers, Morgan introduced a new series of uneven but fresh TV sketches. The best of them showed Morgan suffering through a friend's home movies and Morgan as a TV newscaster being confused by four wall clocks (for Paris, London, Algiers and McKeesport). The commercials, animated cartoons for Campbell's Soup, are self-consciously cute...
Just as the balloon was ready to be attached to its basket for the take-off, a person or persons hidden in the dense crowd exploded the balloon. Some observers speculated that the shot intended for the "accidental shooting" of the Nicaraguan ambassador (which did not come off) may have done the defeating. After a brief murmur of disappointment, the crowd dissipated...