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The U.S. also engaged in weather modification through Project Popeye, a secret program from 1967 to 1972 that seeded clouds with silver iodide to prolong the monsoon season in an attempt to cut the flow of fighters and supplies coming down the Ho Chi Minh Trail from North Vietnam.

Each episode runs 11 minutes, the classic length of the old Popeye and Bugs Bunny and Road Runner theatrical shorts — brief enough to not wear out an idea, long enough to express one, but timed to keep the gags coming fast.

The critic branded his performance "as the reckless, racist cop", 'Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle, in William Friedkin's 1971 film The French Connection as "unmissable".

But it was his 1971 role as New York City cop Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in “The French Connection” that turned the 41-year-old Hackman into a major star and earned him an Oscar for best actor.

He played the part of the maverick narcotics agent Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle who pursues a French drugs dealer, most notably in a famous sequence on the New York subway.