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Speaker 1: I'm e. G.
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Speaker 1: Let's say it's a bright summer day with the sky
high and blue, and you are half dozing in the
shade of a tree out in the country or on
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for the briefest moment you shudder to the marrow of
your bones with such intense cold that for that moment,
heart breathing, feeling, light stops dead. You open your eyes
and look up, but there is nothing in the clear sky.
Then you will know that over you has passed one
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so he's well up in his nineties now, but he
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Speaker 4: Ah?
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all intents and purposes, the plane in which we are
traveling is not different from any normal jet, a seven
oh seven or perhaps a DC nine, with two exceptions.
Perhaps there is no first class, as if it were
a charter plane, and it carries only two loan passengers,
both of them apparently asleep. There are other many other
differences in this plane, but I leave you to discover
those for yourself.
Speaker 7: Wake up, Jelly, Wake up, jelly, wake up, jelly, wake
up turners.
Speaker 2: Where where am I.
Speaker 3: A plane? I wasn't going on a plane?
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 2: I if I am?
Speaker 8: Where to?
Speaker 6: What for?
Speaker 1: I can't be awake?
Speaker 3: Now it's a few.
Speaker 1: And yet I'm I'm not asleep.
Speaker 2: I know that.
Speaker 3: Oh I can hear the engines field of vibrations.
Speaker 2: Oh there's a steward is.
Speaker 3: Because she looks so old?
Speaker 1: I never s old.
Speaker 3: Stewart is on a plane.
Speaker 4: For gott it be?
Speaker 1: I can ask her?
Speaker 3: Oh why did she have to stop by him?
Speaker 2: I hope they don't talk too long?
Speaker 7: Work loss, wreak up, work, Moss, Wake up, work Moss
wake up.
Speaker 3: I must have fallen asleep. That's funny. I don't feel tired.
I can't remember Chicago, Saint Lewis. No, I didn't have
to have a town trip this week, did I? It
wasn't there with the lake.
Speaker 4: As well?
Speaker 9: Then?
Speaker 2: How likes stories?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: Can I help you?
Speaker 2: The seat belt light is out, so I guess it's safe.
Speaker 3: To smoke in the rear of the plane. It is
permitted to smoke.
Speaker 2: Oh thanks, Yeah, how about rustling me up with double
to any real dry to go with her?
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, mister Moss. There no drinks served on this plane, not.
Speaker 2: Even a little wine with dinner.
Speaker 3: No mealles I served either. No, that's the way it
does with charter flights. You couldn't call this a charter flight. Yes, sir,
it's not a through flight. I guess there'll be some
set down, that's.
Speaker 1: Correct, sir.
Speaker 3: Well, I hope for your sake business wasn't all that bad.
Just two of us?
Speaker 4: How many are you expecting it?
Speaker 2: The next step?
Speaker 10: But I don't know that yet.
Speaker 3: Excuse me, I think I wanted up from mister Moss.
May I be of insistance, Miss Wallace?
Speaker 11: I know you're gonna think this is real dumb of me,
but I fell asleep and waking up, I'm so spaced
I I can't remember.
Speaker 3: I mean, where are we going?
Speaker 10: I'm sorry, dear, I'm not allowed to tell you that.
Speaker 3: You mean.
Speaker 2: Some sort of prisoner.
Speaker 12: Oh no, no, not a tall You couldn't go anywhere
on the plane you like, except the cockpit of coy.
And now, if you'll excuse me, I think perhaps the
captain wants to talk to me.
Speaker 3: Oh no, wait, wait please, Oh just a minute. There's
so many things I want to ask you. I really
wouldn't do any good. I wouldn't be able to ask for.
Speaker 1: Just one thing.
Speaker 3: Is is this some sort of a hospital plane?
Speaker 2: I have told you all I can tell you.
Speaker 13: What is it?
Speaker 3: I'm awful dream I'm scared?
Speaker 2: Oh mom, please, who's scared?
Speaker 3: Excuse me? Miss hi? Hello? Well there are only two
of us on the whole plane, so uh well, I
tell you the truth. I could use some company, so good.
I wait a minute, I'll slide over so.
Speaker 1: You can sit down.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: My name is uh yeah, it's just.
Speaker 3: I should have my Yeah, that's my business.
Speaker 2: Card, perfect moss. I'm in.
Speaker 3: I'm with Troy Train and Kenward. That's that's an advertising firm. Well,
as long as we're talking together, and I think I
should ask your name me. Oh, it's Jenny, Jenny, she
called me. Wait a minute, let me look in my bag.
Speaker 4: There are be.
Speaker 3: Yeah here my vent card, Jenny Wallace.
Speaker 6: That's me.
Speaker 3: Browsy picture, not at all.
Speaker 2: Nobody our age takes a bad picture.
Speaker 6: You.
Speaker 3: You also didn't seem to be sure of your name,
Jenny Ginny right, But don't look so scared, dear, you
have company. Why do you think I went groping for
my business card? I wasn't sure of mine either.
Speaker 2: No kidding, you weren't honest.
Speaker 3: Honest, I'll tell you more than that. I don't know
how I got on this plane, do you? Oh, I'm
I can butt you something else. You probably don't know
where this plane is headed for.
Speaker 4: Do you?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I don't, and the stewardess wouldn't tell me or me
another thing.
Speaker 3: I've looked through all my pockets and I can't find
any carbon copy of my ticket, luggage, checks.
Speaker 1: Or anything like that.
Speaker 3: I think it's so scared.
Speaker 14: You don't think it's like like well, like one of
those skyjack things, and where the hostage.
Speaker 3: Is like, I mean, well, I could figure you, but
why Skyjack? No, I don't know it's possible except except what, well,
why don't we.
Speaker 4: Know who we are?
Speaker 2: Remember where we're going.
Speaker 3: Let's try some questions.
Speaker 2: Do you have any brothers or sisters?
Speaker 3: Sure, two sisters and a brother. How old are they
younger than me?
Speaker 2: Mary's fourteen, Margaret's eleventh, and Tommy's only seven.
Speaker 1: And your mother and father.
Speaker 3: Pop Pop died a while back.
Speaker 2: Mom's alive. You live with the family.
Speaker 3: No, I'm going to say I didn't anymore. But well
it's going to sort of blank again. All right, Now,
let's not push it or you right, let's think about me. Well,
we know you work at an advertising agency. What do
you do there a lot of colleaguecutive vice presses in
charge of Magnum Brands.
Speaker 11: Well, I bet you live outside the city and travel
in commuter trains with barkhas and all like that.
Speaker 3: And I I bet I bet you're married right out
with kids near my Yes, yes, Brian's at college already,
and Adrianna is yes, because of course I'm married and
I live in green Ridge. Wait a minute, there's there's
a picture kids a couple of years ago. And it's
my wife, Nina. Here's some other pictures of the kids,
and that's the house. And this one too, Oh beautiful.
What's how you topped one?
Speaker 2: Who's there?
Speaker 3: Well, that's my secretary Barbara. Oh good lord, what is it,
mister mar Nothing, No, it's nothing. I forgot to leave
her some some instructions about a meeting. What day is this?
I don't know. I don't even know the day. I
have a feeling it's terribly important for us to know
just what this day means, both of us.
Speaker 4: What is it?
Speaker 2: Why you said it?
Speaker 3: You gave me goosebumps all over. I know the feeling.
I don't like anything about this.
Speaker 2: Look on a plane like this, there should be more
than one hostess.
Speaker 3: I'm going up front to get some information about where
this plane is going. Why don't you go after and
see if there is another hostess in the galley?
Speaker 1: You mean, like in the back.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm going to check the pilot. Okay, it's tomorrow, pilot.
Speaker 2: Flight out to somebody.
Speaker 3: I want to talk to you by command that you
open this door.
Speaker 1: This is your captain.
Speaker 2: We're all passengers.
Speaker 8: Please not said the no smoking lights are on, and
that seat belts be fasting. Please resume your seats immediately.
Speaker 1: We are preparing to land.
Speaker 8: Passenger as we're resume their seats immediately and buckrow their
seat belts.
Speaker 1: Please put out all cigarettes.
Speaker 3: We are preparing to land. We're bothering the plane. You
know it's all right, Jenny, who are just diving a
bit deeply And that's all kind of thinking. My done
riding and sit down and sit down, that's the girl.
Don't keep your mouth open and swallow. You can fasten
your seat belts.
Speaker 1: Hold up tight.
Speaker 3: Now listen to me. I don't know what you plan
to do, but when we land, whatever it is I'm
getting off this plane.
Speaker 2: I'd advise you to do the same.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I've only got a.
Speaker 3: Couple of dollars, don't.
Speaker 2: Worry about that.
Speaker 3: I've got money and credit cards to.
Speaker 1: Get off with me.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, one would I tell you to snap open
your seat belt and head.
Speaker 2: With me for the exiting.
Speaker 3: This is your captain.
Speaker 1: We are about diet.
Speaker 3: Remain in your seats.
Speaker 1: It's I'll be a short stop. You knock y, fasten
your seat, I'll talk about it. You'll be taking off
the immediately.
Speaker 2: Pig's eyes.
Speaker 1: O we're down.
Speaker 4: That's funny.
Speaker 1: I never heard him drop that landing gear.
Speaker 2: Are we all right? You know?
Speaker 3: As soon as we come to a halt, snap open
your seatbelt and follow me, yes, mister Mott. Okay, now
I can't buck.
Speaker 2: Won't all be as soon as I get mine up?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Damn, oh, I know something was up. I sure would
like to know what the devil is going on?
Speaker 2: What is it, mister Mott?
Speaker 3: These damn belts are gimmicks.
Speaker 2: Somehow we're trapped in our seats.
Speaker 3: Whoever they are, they're not going to let us get off.
Speaker 2: Who are they?
Speaker 3: I don't know, Jinny, I'm afraid even to think. Still,
it is a good question.
Speaker 2: Who are they?
Speaker 1: Where is this strange plane headed with its cargo of
only two passengers? Why is the hostess and elderly woman?
And what is the rest of the crew like? And
why have they stopped at wherever they have stuff? And
who else or what else is coming aboard? I'll return
shortly with that two.
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Speaker 1: The strange plane rests on the ground, its engines idling easily,
and nothing happens in their seats. Ginny Wallace and herb
Ross have given up struggling with the seatbelts, which refuse
to unclasp, painting them helplessly in their seats. The cockpit
door remains closed. The sense of unimaginable and pending action
is so palpable that both have dropped their voices almost
to a whisper.
Speaker 3: Can you see where we are?
Speaker 2: Out the window?
Speaker 9: Nothing?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: Rub the window off?
Speaker 1: I can't reach I.
Speaker 3: Did, but it's just that white mist, sort of like
a cloud. I mean outside, no lights, no movement you
can see.
Speaker 2: No, what's going to happen to it?
Speaker 3: I don't know who's that ringing them on board? Who
is it? I can't see over the back of the seat.
I don't know about the passengers. It's the stewardess who
was up front?
Speaker 12: How did she get to the rear of the plane though,
mister Shaffer and K one strap him in and s
in a moment mister Morris, miss Newman in S one
and mister Downing in S two makes the secure stewardess.
Speaker 2: I demand to be released and let.
Speaker 3: All but this stot.
Speaker 10: Thank you boy, soon as you're out, little nothing th
off dous?
Speaker 17: Do you hear me?
Speaker 3: I don't?
Speaker 12: Didn't you hear?
Speaker 2: Why don't you let them? We are in the take
off room. Please do not smoke and make sure it
will safety, but.
Speaker 1: Also faster, my lease.
Speaker 3: Release.
Speaker 6: Who has a chance?
Speaker 3: Can't you stop it?
Speaker 12: The bob some way?
Speaker 1: I can't say.
Speaker 3: I think you must be beginning to realize that as well.
Speaker 1: As I wake up.
Speaker 3: Danny Shaffer, Wake up, Dannis Shafer, Wake up Dannis Schafer.
Speaker 1: We very what is this a plane? Are you quite comfortable?
Speaker 3: The Shafer?
Speaker 1: What the devil are you? Let's do it is?
Speaker 3: You've gotta be kidding an old team Mike you hey,
what kind of an airline is this? Anyhow at the
proper time? You know? Excuse me, I have another and.
Speaker 7: Just to attend to wake up Arrol Yuman, Darrol Yuman, Arronman, Carrolman.
Speaker 3: And I when I wake up, I don't ever want
to wake up. I could care about that? Am I
doing on a plane?
Speaker 1: What's this guy next to me?
Speaker 3: I don't like tourists?
Speaker 1: Let me think. Wake up, Bruce Downing, Wake up Bruce Downing.
No oh no, I couldn't, not no, not no. I
made the big chance. I can't blow it. I can't. Well,
only I have I know it. Damn motor is still
running here, it's still huh. I'm not under the car.
I'm on a plane.
Speaker 4: It's all right, It must be all right.
Speaker 12: Quite all right, mister Downey huh, I say, for the moment,
is quite all right. Where are we headed on the
passage you booked? Now, if you'll excuse me, I have
to make quite a few preparations.
Speaker 1: Hey, wait a minute, or damn, what's the matter with
this buckle?
Speaker 2: He's missing around with it.
Speaker 3: I tried some new safety gimmick. I suppose won't release
till the seats out light goes off.
Speaker 1: Oh well, what's the difference you mind? If I smoke?
Speaker 3: Now, if you have a stick, I'll join you.
Speaker 1: Oh no, grass, ma'am. I mean I'm strictly keep off
the grass these days. Just straight over, filtered.
Speaker 12: Did I ask for anything more?
Speaker 1: You didn't have to way to have a kind right now?
What does that mean? We've been down a lot of
the same roads.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been gone the same road as I guess,
just a few more of.
Speaker 1: Them than you.
Speaker 3: Sonny, You weather pretty well, and a couple of.
Speaker 1: Years doesn't give you any right to that. Sonny.
Speaker 2: You can call me.
Speaker 1: Bruce uh Bruce uh Bruce O. I'm Carol.
Speaker 3: I've got a case of the who the hell am
I hotted? I get here blues too.
Speaker 1: I was hoping you could flew me in about what,
for example, this flight, where we're going, how I got here?
Speaker 3: I think i'd be much help you notice what I'm wearing?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's nice sort of yeah, I see what you mean.
Speaker 3: No use asking you if you've got a ticket scarcely
in a neglige.
Speaker 11: You can pretty well tell everything I've got.
Speaker 3: I'll get a blanket from the hostess. Do you have
a ticket?
Speaker 1: Nothing that I can find?
Speaker 3: And you have no idea how of why you're here?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Well, kind of hazy, but no, oh damn. We can
only get out of these seat belts.
Speaker 2: What for?
Speaker 3: You see that couple sitting down front, the older man
and the chicken, the jeans. Yeah, I've got a.
Speaker 1: Crazy notion they were already on the plane before it landed,
or anyway, before it picked us up. Maybe they have
some answer.
Speaker 3: What about the mean looking cat with the fizzy if.
Speaker 12: They had one with a knife he's trying to cut.
Speaker 1: The belt with. I don't think I want to tangle
with that character. He's riding the edge of something. This
is your captain.
Speaker 8: We have now reached our cruising altitude, and for a
brief period to our next stop. We suggest you hous
in your seat belts if use this and stretch out.
A little smoking is permitted in the rear half of
the plane.
Speaker 2: Jamal, here's Jenny, what.
Speaker 11: Did you mean about me beginning to realize what's happening.
Speaker 3: As well as you do?
Speaker 2: Aren't you beginning to remember things? I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: It's like a bad dream.
Speaker 3: Thinks it couldn't really happen. It happened to me only.
Speaker 2: And the worst of all is.
Speaker 1: I don't know how to say it.
Speaker 3: You don't have to, Jenny.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 3: I feel the same way. Sooner or later we're going
to have to face it.
Speaker 2: No, Jenny, my poor dear little girl.
Speaker 3: Me for breaking up the love scene. But I'm looking
for a couple of answers. Man, there's no smoking in
this section of the plane. You've got to be putting
me on, man, And there's five of us here, that's
all there are. Who cares. I'm amber tool it up
in the proper section. And the lady beside me doesn't smoke.
Speaker 1: Oh you mean love child here? Don't let it give
you no run around, Dad. She not only smokes turns on,
but she's a user.
Speaker 3: I can help put that cigarette out, punk, or I'll
run you aft and stick your head down one of
the bulls.
Speaker 1: Tough guy, huh, still feels so tough.
Speaker 2: Night.
Speaker 7: I'm in to.
Speaker 3: Market easy, Jenny. I don't think he wants to try
to use it.
Speaker 2: He's just supposed to scare me and try to prove
what a big man he is.
Speaker 1: Hey, now, don't ever kid yourself. I got nothing to lose. Now,
let's answer me a couple of questions, such as, where's
this plane headed for her? I don't know that.
Speaker 3: Don't give me that you were here before we got
it before or however we got here. You must know something.
Speaker 2: Don't you know why you're here?
Speaker 3: Hey?
Speaker 9: Man?
Speaker 3: Would I be asking you if I did hold it?
Speaker 1: What do you two want? The same thing you do?
Apparently information I seek out, mister Mott.
Speaker 2: We can listen to this, Yes, I already have.
Speaker 3: Oh, come on, let's talk cool us in What is
this a prison ship or something?
Speaker 1: And why we could think that?
Speaker 3: Would you lay up? Hey? He wants the idea to
get up. You're wearing I don't know, but I had
one when I woke up here on the plane. You
mean you too, was shacking up, and he brought you
aboard in your fancy night chre.
Speaker 1: No, he doesn't mean that. The first time I met
this lady was on this plane. I don't even know
how I got here myself. And why don't you put
that knife away?
Speaker 4: And why don't you cool it?
Speaker 3: I ain't letting this out of my hand till I
get a slant on what this whole gig is. See,
my name is Herbert Moss. This is Jenny Wallace.
Speaker 1: Who cares about name?
Speaker 2: We should get acquainted since we're all in the same well.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm Danny.
Speaker 2: Danny. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Somebody must have slipped me a mickey or something before
I got caught it on here right. I can't think
Jenny and I had trouble remembering who we were.
Speaker 4: How about you too?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: A kind of a voice whispered my name to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, me too, That's how I knew my name, Yeah,
right on, right on, same with me, like I was like,
like I was coming to uh uh wake up Danny.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, yeah. The old bag of the uniform, She said, Shaeffer,
that's it, Danny Schaeffer Downing, Bruce Downing, that's me.
Speaker 3: And to vote that krel Melman Nolan. Oh great, now
now we're all buddies.
Speaker 1: Okay, but look, I'm asking you, Dad.
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 3: What do you know?
Speaker 2: I told you nothing.
Speaker 3: Don't give me that.
Speaker 1: I hope you will say something to the love chick
here when I came up something about face it face.
Speaker 2: What doesn't anybody know.
Speaker 3: Or guess? It's all just fits pieces, things that won't
go together. I can't remember it straight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like that for me too, mister Downey.
Speaker 1: Hey, yeah, that's about the size of it. One thing
I do, it doesn't tie in right away?
Speaker 2: How about you?
Speaker 3: Dad?
Speaker 2: And I'm beginning to remember a lot more than I
want to.
Speaker 1: All right, now what does that mean?
Speaker 2: Answer me a question?
Speaker 3: First?
Speaker 2: Do you remember anything?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I remember plenty. I've held up stores, run numbers, lifted,
hoisted cars, you name it, ever since I was fourteen
years old, but only to put something in my stomach.
The last thing I do remember is I finally went
for the big one letter one. It was robbing a
store and tried to jump me and before I could think,
I had to shive in him. And I knew he
bought it. So that's the CRETI air. I don't really
care about the rest of you. All I want to
know is what am I doing? And it's bleeping plane?
And where are we headed? And how do we get
offer here? At this time?
Speaker 3: I expect an answer that answer because I think you
know and I don't know exactly. I'm only guessing for
two reasons.
Speaker 1: Spill them.
Speaker 3: First, you all hurt, Danny, He's done plenty to be
ashamed of, even if he wouldn't admit it. I think
the first part of that statement is what all of
us have in common. We're all deeply ashamed of something
or things we've done. That's number one. What would I
be ashamed of?
Speaker 1: For me?
Speaker 3: I didn't do anything? You shut up?
Speaker 1: What's the other thing we got in common?
Speaker 3: Take a look at your windbreaker, Danny?
Speaker 1: Yeah, what about it?
Speaker 3: There's a hole in the front, So what on zipp
It's look at your shirt underneath, or pull up your
shirt and.
Speaker 1: Look at your chests.
Speaker 3: Hey, come on, what are you trying to pull?
Speaker 2: Trying to answer your questions for you and for all
of us?
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, I'm all brought what happened? I'm guessing that
police officer you knife had a partner and that he
shot you right through the hearts.
Speaker 1: I got a hold of my chest, big.
Speaker 3: Slug at least at least a thirty eight said wait, Dad,
I must be Oh no, no, no, I can't be.
Speaker 9: I'm afraid you are, Danny. I'm afraid all of us are.
Wick Dad, this is your captain. Will you please be
sure that you were seated and to fasten your seatuels,
Please extinguish all cigarettes. We are coming in fom landing now,
thank you.
Speaker 2: Better fasten up everyone?
Speaker 1: What's for not me?
Speaker 3: I'm getting off this plane when it lands, and if they.
Speaker 2: Won't allow you to, I might as well follow orders.
Speaker 3: If the increases the pitch anymore, you'll be rolling all
over the floor.
Speaker 2: You could break your neck.
Speaker 3: What difference does it make if I'm dead?
Speaker 2: I don't know that for sure. I'm only guessing because
it because I think I'll remember that I am dead.
Speaker 3: Has herb guessed the truth?
Speaker 1: And if he has, what are the passengers who ride
this strange plane headed for at this next landing? That is,
supposing the pilot can pull the plane out of the
screaming dive that has sent Dan scrambling for a seat,
and for a moment the welcome restraint of the seat belt.
Speaker 3: I'll be back in a moment with a three.
Speaker 12: Stay good.
Speaker 1: You've said.
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drinkability you'll find in no other beer at any price.
A taste, a smoothness, and a drinkability. That say this beer,
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Speaker 2: I say, Wiser, You've said it all.
Speaker 3: And I a boshed Saint Louis.
Speaker 5: You worked hard to get where you are, and now
it would be a very good time to give yourself
a little pat on the back in the form of
Buick Electra and a car fire would rule luxury comfort
the perfect place for you and you're free spirit to
get together the Buick Electra. Think of it as recognition
for a job well done.
Speaker 2: How gon.
Speaker 1: W Hey ma'am, what's for dinner?
Speaker 3: Hey ma'am?
Speaker 2: What's she cat?
Speaker 1: What's for dinner?
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Tom's or hens ten to twenty two pounds just forty
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Speaker 1: It's a low.
Speaker 6: Calorie and nutritis meal at a great price. Check the
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your vitamin C with sun kissed naval oranges, a large
eighty eight size ten for seventy nine cents, or a
Shopwright frozen orange juice the sixteen ounce cam just forty
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Speaker 1: Good dah.
Speaker 3: She loves it badly.
Speaker 1: She wants the best.
Speaker 6: She does all that she can do.
Speaker 1: She lets shop right to the rast.
Speaker 2: Hey maw, what's for dinner?
Speaker 3: Shop right has the answer? New York in the eighteen nineties,
mister Louis Sherry's New York of a city of elegance.
If JP Morgan wanted to dine in the style to
which he was accustomed, he'd go to mister Lewis Cherry's
celebrated restaurant Pudding, Sir.
Speaker 1: Highlight of dinner at.
Speaker 3: Cherry's was the ice cream dessert. Louis Cherry's ice cream
still has that old fashioned flavor, yet none of the
day's additives. It's made only from real cream, milk, pure cane, sugar,
egg yolks, natural flavor, no artificial anything. You will see
that we haven't lost our taste for old fashioned elegance.
Mister Louis Cherry's ice cream, the natural flavor of the
eighteen nineties. In the nineteen seventies, again the great plane
lies earth bound, or at least not in the act
of flying. Again, swirling mists mask whatever may lie outside
the cabin where five people sit in prison. Now and
again the motherly but elusive Stewardess superintends the boarding of
new passengers, this time only one who is seated in
the very rear.
Speaker 1: And now, with his arrival, there is a new surprise.
Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen. May I have your attention? Please? Hey, look,
I want to talk to you. I don't want to
get on.
Speaker 1: Why get off?
Speaker 10: Be quiet and listen to me, please, I have something
to explain. This will be the last stop before your destination.
The passenger who has just got mom board is the
Reverend Doctor pell. He will join you as soon as
you are airborne.
Speaker 3: I will not be with you for the rest of
the flight. May I wish you all goodbye and good luck?
Speaker 1: Waup, wake up, wake up, oh my beloved father. I
do remember that article of the Acts of Religion which
does concern the wicked, and such be void of a
lively faith? Must I then be denied the partaking in
the body of Christ to the use of the Lord's Supper.
Speaker 3: What happened nothing, We just stopped climbing and leveled off.
Speaker 1: And that means a seatbelt light should be going on
any minute, and then and then the horn will tell
us that we can get.
Speaker 3: Off and get out of here, right I suppose so
for all that means, Hey, look, we ain't dead. I
ain't find any of that. Poor understand now I gotta
get to a doc and fix me up.
Speaker 2: Won't do any good too late.
Speaker 6: How do you know?
Speaker 1: I mean, what makes you so sure?
Speaker 3: Because I have a hole in my chest to match yours. Look,
your shirt is covered with blood.
Speaker 1: Off.
Speaker 3: I had everything, a loving wife, fine children, successful career.
I'm forty eight years old and my secretary I was
twenty two, and I took advantage of her, made her
my mistress, promised her a marriage I knew I had
no intention of going through with, and I was just
leaving her apartments when the young man she should have
married emotionally in say.
Speaker 1: Shut me.
Speaker 3: Last thing I remember was the bullet tearing into my
chests and then the blackness. That's why I know I
am dead, and why I am on this plane. Why
all of us are why why me?
Speaker 1: He said it before. We all have something to be
ashamed of. What was your scene?
Speaker 3: Man mention?
Speaker 1: Anything an actor can do to Cloyd's way to the top,
and I've tried it. I won't embarrass little Jenny by
naming him. I wouldn't want to hurt a lady's feelings.
Speaker 11: I once thought I had talent as a designer, but
I had another talent that men were more interested in.
Speaker 3: This with quite a lot of money.
Speaker 6: I found.
Speaker 11: It was after I'd been married and my husband walked
out on me, when when.
Speaker 2: I had a kid.
Speaker 3: I'm not excusing myself, but I did have to bring
up my baby till she died.
Speaker 11: And by that time, as you can see, I wasn't
all that young anymore, so.
Speaker 3: So much in demand, and.
Speaker 4: What was there left to live for?
Speaker 3: I had upper downers everything.
Speaker 11: Still, Instead of my usual tool before going to bed alone,
I emptied the bottle excuse the hearts and flowers. But
it seems to be let's take our head down time.
Speaker 3: But I thought you'd broken out as a trap.
Speaker 1: I had at the expense of my best friend Yahoo,
an actor friend who was playing the part in Uranus
who got me the job is understudy. His first break too.
I slipped him a mickey before the opening night performance.
That's how I went on and got all the reviews.
Speaker 2: I thought I was a big star already.
Speaker 1: Had it made I want myself a sports job and
became a party boy invited now instead of hired. I
turned that car upside down trying to make a right
angle curve at ninety Damn right, I'm dead then, I
know it, and maybe I'm glad I.
Speaker 2: Killed my baby. I deserved to do.
Speaker 1: Hush y.
Speaker 3: I love in that bed hello too. So wanted to
be very but Mom would give a consent. She was
too old for me. Not if I was having his baby.
Mom would have to agree. I'bout married. I waited until
after three months, and I told her only he worked
out on me, and it was too late, too late
for the hospitals to take care of.
Speaker 2: The sun.
Speaker 3: I didn't want his baby anymore, and I went to it.
Speaker 2: Not even a doctor.
Speaker 3: Oh it was mercer.
Speaker 2: I deserve the time.
Speaker 3: We all do, and mister Moss is right. That's why
we're here, and that's where we're all going straight to hell.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, sir, not me.
Speaker 2: What do you think you're going to do.
Speaker 1: I've been looking.
Speaker 3: The door of the cockpit is open.
Speaker 1: It the shive's en up.
Speaker 3: I'm going in there a skyjackets playing.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna make that finot turn by.
Speaker 3: The belts are open.
Speaker 1: Come on, brush, we better get him.
Speaker 3: Do you think there's a cancer.
Speaker 2: I don't want that crazy kidden. What is it?
Speaker 1: Danny, Danny, what's the matter.
Speaker 3: There's no one in there, no one.
Speaker 1: There's no one flying the place. I'm afraid, not missing one,
not yours, any of ours.
Speaker 2: What do you mean?
Speaker 3: Father? I'm not a farmer, but you're still a minister.
Speaker 1: You could help. I wish I could, my dear, I
wish that would all my heart.
Speaker 2: But you see, I am one of you.
Speaker 4: I've been listening to all of.
Speaker 3: You, and I know now that's why I'm here.
Speaker 1: I no longer have any right to the name of
a minister. What brought you here to join us?
Speaker 2: Sir?
Speaker 1: The greatest sin of all I renounced my God. I
spent the last four years in Vietnam. I saw such
suffering and misery without reason that ah, But I was
too busy then to think of the skies had left
on the mind was only returning to the United States,
wanting to pray for those poor people I'd known, and
for the agony of our country and all the world
that that suddenly I found there were no more words,
there was no more belief. Everything had been wrung from me,
and my faith was gone. How did you die by
God's hand? I was passing a crowd, lost in my
own thoughts and the struggle in my mind, and a
policeman came to me and said there was a boy
on a ledge threatening to kill himself unless they found
him a minister. I up to that high place and
out on that ledge, and I asked him to come in.
And he said to me, Father, why should I come
back to a world where there is no God? Tell me,
convince me that there is one, and I will come in.
Where were the words of comfort that can only be
spoken from the soul? I who had picked this mission
to devote my life to had none to offer, and
the blackness in me? I felt myself reeling, and like Lucifer,
I fell headlong into eternal damnation.
Speaker 3: I wonder whose is the greatest sin?
Speaker 2: And does it matter?
Speaker 3: After all?
Speaker 2: I'd guess that religion has touched me less than any
one of you.
Speaker 3: We still have hope. Hey man, what are you talking about?
You're the one put the whammie on us from the beginning.
You're the one first put us all behind the eight ball.
Whatever all of us did, we were human human, born
to make mistakes, big, old little. If we didn't, we'd
be God or gods. Each of us carries our private
hell within us. I cannot conceive with anything beyond that
as punishment. The whole idea of God surely means compassion.
Speaker 1: What thought we're learning without any approach into their.
Speaker 3: What does it mean?
Speaker 9: Hey?
Speaker 12: Help me?
Speaker 3: Hey, knock it off?
Speaker 2: Danny, ain't you scarce?
Speaker 12: Sure?
Speaker 1: But not so much after what mister Mott said, thing's
coming to a heart.
Speaker 3: You said we were to a kind think? Can I
hang unto you? I make remarke.
Speaker 1: Sit down, everyone, let's not waste time.
Speaker 2: Who are you traffic control?
Speaker 1: Of course?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: Well we help not yet?
Speaker 3: May I ask where we are?
Speaker 2: This is sort of a halfway station.
Speaker 1: We have your dossiers. You have all made mistakes of
greater or lesser value. That's neither here nor there. You
have reached what is usually called the point of no return.
That is the point on a journey where you are
exactly halfway, and so you have a choice. Do you
wish to continue or would you like to go back
to where you were before the moment of finite death?
Speaker 2: You mean, we are not condemned Everlastingly.
Speaker 1: No one has judged you as yet but yourselves. None
of you returns to face an easy life.
Speaker 2: But if you want to, you may.
Speaker 3: You mean there is a god who offers us a
second chance.
Speaker 1: Of course, everyone deserves that, don't you think. I wonder
if the memory of this tale will haunt you, and if,
perhaps says it does, that mistake, that hurtful or even
vicious action you may have taken, may give you a
moment's pause to reconsider and perhaps to try to repair
the damage. For all of us, there is a second chance,
at least once.
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I'm Barry Farber. Whose side are you on in the
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in Washington, DC.
Speaker 4: My commentary after this.
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Speaker 14: Today, speaking to the National Baptist Convention representing more than
six million of the nation's blacks, President Ford said e
quality is not yet a full reality for every American,
I'm sorry to say. He called for what he termed
a communion of Americans of all races and creeds to
build a new and better American as the nation enters
its third century. The President spoke to the convention as
he began a two day business and political trip to Missouri, Kansas,
and Texas. He said that minorities and women still do
not participate equally in employment, nor do they share many economic, social,
and other resources of the nation. Yet the struggle goes on,
he declared, and it must continue until the vision of
the founding fathers and the dream of Martin Luther King
and others has become a reality. The worlds in the
nation's greatest problems, the President said, can be solved only
by sincere changes of the will and the human heart.
It was a president's second full day before the public
as a whole since twenty six year old Lynnette from
pointed a gun at the President just one week ago
in Sacramento, California.
Speaker 4: She, of course, as you recall, was subdued by.
Speaker 14: Secret Service agents on that point, and since that incident,
presidential security has been extremely heavy. In New Hampshire yesterday,
when the President was campaigning for Republican senatorial candidate Louis Wyman.
Secret Service agents were surrounding him at all times, and
there was strict police control of all of the crowds.
Speaker 4: The president, in addition, appeared.
Speaker 14: To be wearing a protective vest, probably a bulletproof vest,
as he plunged repeatedly into the crowd to shake the
hands of well wishers along the motorcade route.
Speaker 4: While today and.
Speaker 14: Saint Louis, a patrolman said that he spotted a man
armed with a pistol near Kio Auditorium, where the President
was to speak. The President apparently was not in the
immediate area at the time. Saint Louis police said the
man was armed with a forty five caliber pistol. The
patrolman said the man escaped into a parking garage next
door to the auditorium, and the search of the garage
was ordered. The patroman's report was received at twelve fifty
in the afternoon at central daylight time, a time when
the President was at a television station about ten blocks
away from the auditorium for an interview. At the police
demand post, an officer said that the man was described
as white, about thirty two thirty five years old. The
officer said that about fifty reserve officers were promptly set
into the area to augment about one hundred and fifty
officers that were already there on duty here in Washington.
The Secret Service did receive the report about an hour
after the incident occurred.
Speaker 4: A spokesman herefore.
Speaker 14: The Secret Service said, we got a preliminary report that
a Saint Louis police officer spotted somebody with something that
appeared to be a weapon. In the meantime, Saint Lewis
Police also reported that two bomb threats were telephoned to
the auditorium switchboard where the president was to speak. A
spokesman said the calls apparently were from two different women,
well a member of Congress and wild vice president. And
even while President President Ford has spoken out repeatedly against
the concept of forcible block bussing to achieve a racial
balance in the schools, but today, in his address before
the Black Baptists in Saint Louis, he did not mention
anything about bussing. The President saying only that he stands
for quote quality education for every American. He said that
that can be achieved quote with reason, calm, and sincerity,
and some prayers from all of us. The President praised
the work of the church for having a major influence
on black accomplishments in the United States. He stated, quote,
I firmly believe that there should be more church leadership
in this country. We see enough of the material power.
What the American people need to know and feel more
often is the spiritual power of the church, school, and
family in their lives. The future of America is not
so much based on how much energy and steel we produce,
although these are vital to our existence. The future of
America is based on the rights and responsibilities that we,
as individuals citizens are willing to commit to others and
accept ourselves. A president offered what he called a great
and noble goal, a communion of Americans coming together to
face a common destiny as one people, one nation, dedicated
not only to the preservation but to the extension of
that unity.
Speaker 4: While the President was in Saint Louis.
Speaker 14: Vice President Nelson Rockefeller was in Dallas, kicking off a
two day political tour.
Speaker 4: Of his own through the Southwest.
Speaker 14: He was founding the administration's theme of free enterprise with
a tight fiscal belt. In declaring that he is not
worried in the slightest about his spot of the nineteen
seventy six Republican ticket.
Speaker 4: The three state Rockefewer trip is designed to.
Speaker 14: Raise money for the Republican Party and to make friends,
of course, for Rockefeller himself. Vice President was telling newsman
in Dallas today that he's not concerned about the Lou
Harris poll released yesterday indicating that he is third choice
of Republicans and Independents for the nineteen seventy six Republican
vice presidential nomination. He is trailing, according to polster Lou Harris,
trailing former California Governor Ronald Reagan and even Senator Barry Goldwater.
Rockefeller asked, when confronted with the news about the poll,
what's new. He was to begin his politicking with an
appearance before the National Federation of Republican Women's Convention. President Ford,
off the day on a similar jaunt, talks to the
group tomorrow. Reagan, who is considered a possible Republican presidential
challenger to Ford, speaks to the group tonight. In prepared
remarks for the convention, the Vice President said that the
administration wants to solve the unemployment crisis and provide financial security,
but he added more government spending could crush free society.
From the Mutual Studios in Washington, I Fulton Lewis, and
that's the top of the news as it looks from here.