Word: trek
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other half white-will be bused between Louisville and the suburbs. In last week's rehearsal, about 5,000 black parents and students rode buses or drove to their new schools in the suburbs on the first day of the rehearsal; 10,000 whites made the reverse trek to inner-city classrooms on the second...
...trajectory. Led by the intrepid commander, John Koenig, the crew overcomes such obstacles as Gwent, the man turned machine; Arra (played by Margaret Leighton), the queen of the enormous planet Astheria; and the temptress of the heavens, the Guardian of Piri. The special effects far exceed anything on Star Trek. They include fleets of hovering cockroach-shaped spaceships, squads of yellow moon buggies and an array of enticing equipment from whatever passes for the Abercrombie & Fitch of intergalactic travel. Laser beams are flashed around like Saturday night specials...
Koenig and his crew wear inter changeable unisex gear designed by Rudi Gernreich. The stars are Martin Landau and Barbara Bain, the hit team of Mission: Impossible. There is even the nucleus of an audience ready for Space: the Trekkies who have been homeless since 1969, when Star Trek went off the air. Dedicated cultists, they have made do with reruns, conventions and newsletters as they wait for big-time sci fi to come back to the small screen...
...encompasses mountains, upland prairie, desert and wetlands and the Pryor Mountains, with prehistoric caves to explore. In Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park, the broad Snake River, bounded by stands of aspen and lodgepole pine, affords both white-water rapids boating and lazy, meandering raft rides. Backpackers can trek into some of the ruggedest terrain in the Rockies...
Harry Houdini, an immigrant on the way up, doesn't have such a sure footed trek. He is a hero to the working classes, and it is only they who are impressed when he strips, is strait-jacketed and dumped into the sea, or locked into the most impossible jail to emerge fully clothed, even respectably dressed. It takes Houdini some time to realize that his gift is only a theatrical exercise in feeding false hopes--that he can't communicate with the people he is performing...