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Spectacular (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). One Touch of Venus; with Janet Blair, Russell Nype...
Below the Salt. The barefoot Venus of Smithfield, N.C. was in some respects an excellent match for the Little Lord Fauntleroy of Hoboken. They had come from well below the salt, and they loved the high life at the head of the table. Ava, who had been chastened in two marriages and on the analytic couch as well, saw through her martini glass more darkly than did Frank. "If I were a man," she told him, "I wouldn't like me." But Frank liked her very much indeed, left home to keep her stormy, full-time company, finally persuaded...
...Transit of Venus. It is the story of the first and greatest of Cook's tours which John Gwyther, a wartime Royal Navy officer, tells in Captain Cook and the South Pacific. A three-year circumnavigation of the globe (1768-71), Cook's voyage added Australia, New Zealand and a number of South Pacific isles to the then known world. Narrated by Author Gwyther with seadog relish, authority and profound professional admiration, Cook's epic journeyings have the fascination of an Odyssey from Yorkshire...
...Lawrence against Quebec. Cook was 40 when he was chosen to skipper the Endeavour. By London's top scientists, the Fellows of the Royal Society and the Admiralty, he was handed a twofold mission: 1) he was to sail to Tahiti and observe the transit of Venus "over the disk of the sun"; 2) he was to search out "Terra Australis Incognita," a vast body of land presumed to extend westward from the tip of South America because it was theoretically necessary to counteract the weight of the Northern Hemisphere and so keep the world on an even keel...
After the icy blasts and terrors of Tierra del Fuego and Cape Horn, sundrenched Tahiti, lazing in the trade winds, seemed a double paradise. The island girls proved eager for the transports, if not the transits, of Venus. To Cook's 18th century mind, it was a matter of their being noble savages "who have not even the idea of indecency" but did have early know-how: "In other countries the girls and unmarried women are supposed to be wholly ignorant of what others upon occasions may appear to know . . . but here it is just contrary. Among other diversions...