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Klieg lights often throw more heat than illumination. Hearsay evidence can be spoken out of context. Mistakes cannot be edited on live TV. Even the most innocent cameraman can, at a tense moment, transform the zoom lens into a character assassin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Watergate on TV: Show Biz and Anguished Ritual | 6/25/1973 | See Source »

...canopy of gray clouds that loomed over Le Bourget Airport. As 350,000 spectators watched, French Pilot Jean Franchi put his big bird through a ten-minute series of brilliantly controlled maneuvers and turns. He ended the performance with a fast pass over the field and a spectacular "zoom climb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Deadly Exhibition | 6/18/1973 | See Source »

Then it was Koslov's turn. After a slow flight over the runway, the TU-144 started an even more awesome zoom climb, afterburners streaking yellow flame and turbofans thundering. "My God," said U.S. Test Pilot Bob Hoover, "I don't see how he can do it!" At 3,000 ft., Koslov began flattening his climb. The plane's needle nose pointed downward, then the craft went into an arrowhead plunge as the pilot struggled to regain control. The stress was too great. At 2,000 ft., the left wing ripped off first, followed by the tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Deadly Exhibition | 6/18/1973 | See Source »

...more advanced successors on the horizon. Now the horizon is empty, and has been since Congress shot down the American supersonic transport two years ago. For the first time since World War II, U.S. aerospace companies have no new generation of silvery flying ships that is imminently scheduled to zoom off the drawing boards and onto the production line. Some aerospace men are not bothered by what they regard as a welcome breathing spell, but others are. Says Eastern Air Lines Vice President Scott Crossfield: "I practically guarantee that the next new aircraft purchased by U.S. lines will be bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AEROSPACE: The Empty Horizon | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

...will fund at least the safe shows--"Sesame Street," "ZOOM" "The Electric Company," and Miste-Rogers Neighborhood." But WGBH and its companion stations across the country will have to seek massive private support for their public affairs shows, such as "The Advocates," "Firing Line," "Bill Moyers Journal," and "Washington Week in Review...

Author: By David J. Scheffer, | Title: WGBH: | 4/9/1973 | See Source »

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