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...people out-and-out believe in prophecy. Lucky guesses happen along now and then, and mathematicians thrive on the so-called educated guess. But a person bluff enough to crane his neck toward the future and expound on the view over yonder is all too often blushing from more than exertion by the time the scene has gotten plain enough for everyone to see. Still, if you can trace an edge here and there, catch a glint on the horizon, and toss in a grain of folk wisdom--say, about history repeating itself--divination is an awfully tempting pasttime. Politicians...
ADVENTURE as a category looks upward. Two shows celebrate the wild blue yonder. Spencer's Pilots (CBS) records the adventures of two young pilots who work for an independent aviation company; against ABC's Donny and Marie and NBC's Sanford and Son, they may never get it off the ground. Baa Baa Black Sheep (NBC) expands the feats of scrappy Pappy Boyington, the celebrated World War II Marine Corps fighter pilot, in Dirty Dozen fashion...
...Harriet Tubman crouches behind a stand of trees that edge the slave quarters of a Maryland plantation, her song wafts across the dark night. "Who's that yonder dressed in red?/ I heard the angels singing./ Looks like the children that Moses led./ I heard the angels singing." The plaintive melody is a mythic signal, readily understood: she is the "Moses" who is leading her people out of bondage. Moments after Harriet's song has ended, the passengers join her on the Underground Railroad, moving North to freedom...
...Yonder somewhere in the California boonies, an earthquake shakes up a small town and sends a deep fissure straight down the middle of one farmer's property. Out of the depths crawls a strange and sinister variety of insect. These nasty buggers can start fires, attach themselves to humans and, as the police reports put it, "inflict serious damage resulting in death." How they manage to do this and where they come from are matters of the greatest interest to James Parmiter (Bradford Dillman), a slightly out-of-kilter science professor at the local college. He takes to studying...
...used to be called "roughing it" or "getting back to nature." Contemporary seekers speak of "environmental awareness" or "the whole-earth experience." By whatever name, the grail of the great outdoors lures more and more thousands of Americans each year to an increasingly jampacked yonder where too often the awareness is of crowded humanity and the call of the wild has become the bawl of a transistor radio...