Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...filming it. Then, to launch their $25 million epic, Tora! Torn! Tora!, a recapitulation of Pearl Harbor (see CINEMA), the producers held a premiere last week in Washington. Among the guests of honor: Technical Adviser Minoru Genda, the retired Japanese general who planned the attack, and Mitsuo Fuchida, the pilot who led it. Even at a remove of nearly 30 years, there seemed an almost stupefying broadmindedness in celebrating Pearl Harbor in the nation's capital...
...annual income is a historic forward step. But Committee Chairman Russell Long and others are wary of HEW cost estimates, noting that Medicaid now consumes almost $3.5 billion a year, five times HEW's original projections. Long and most other committee members favor further experimenting with pilot projects...
...During the fighting in Amman, the 34-year-old monarch kept a helicopter standing by at Al-Hummar in case he lost the battle and was forced to flee after 17 years on a troubled throne. In the days to come, Hussein may regret that he never gave his pilot the order...
...Jarrett) and her fiance, a clod-kicking Iowa veterinarian (John Fink). Producer Sidney Sheldon denies lifting the idea from CBS's Governor and J.J. He got the idea, he says, during the Johnson Administration (which, in possibly its wisest decision, was unofficially unreceptive). The Nixon girls saw the pilot and found it "cute." Nancy's most embarrassing character, actually, is a wisecracking White House woman aide (Celeste Holm) with some of the most pitiable material on the air. Liz Carpenter should sue for equal time...
Rogers died in a plane crash at Point Barrow, Alaska, in 1935, along with the globe-girdling pilot, Wiley Post. In the nostalgia of Whitmore's performance, it is refreshing to be reminded of a time when a man who had amassed millions could scuff his toes at success and say quite simply, "Shucks, I was just an old cowhand that had a bit of luck...