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Belgrade, meanwhile, has opened up a bit. Television and other journalists have been allowed to report out of the Yugoslavian capital, albeit under restrictions. "This gives some sense of how the citizenry there is reacting to the war," says ABC's Murphy. CBS News is particularly pleased to have gotten its anchorman, Dan Rather, into Belgrade. "His name recognition has allowed us to get access to various officials and places," says Marcy McGinnis, CBS vice president for news coverage...
...Farai Chideya '90, now an ABC-TV correspondent, fondly recounts, "the classy side of the craziness--the cool dad you never...
Newspaper, magazine and television journalists relish commemorating, and few media outlets have allowed the occasion of the coming millennium to go uncontemplated. This week ABC weighs in with an homage to the current century. Seven years in the making, the project has cost the network $20 million, marking it as one of the most expensive undertakings in the history of the news division. Shapers of the documentary examined more than 3,000 hours of news footage and conducted hundreds of interviews...
...entirely forgotten. In the late 1960s, Sperry Rand, which held the rights to Eckert and Mauchly's original UNIVAC patents, sued Honeywell (which, like IBM, had got into the computer business) for royalty payments. At one point in the six-year litigation, Atanasoff testified that Mauchly cribbed ABC's key features during a five-day visit in 1941. Mauchly indignantly denied the accusation. But the judge took a different view. In a 1973 decision that was never appealed, he invalidated Eckert and Mauchly's patents and in effect declared Atanasoff the winner. Historians, however, interpret the ruling more broadly, viewing...
...invent the computer? Novel as it may have been, ABC could not be reprogrammed, did not handle large numbers well and never became fully operational. By contrast, the reprogrammable ENIAC did initial calculations for the H-bomb, kept flashing away for nearly a decade and led to a host of more sophisticated successors. Take your pick...