Word: anchored
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...York TV affiliates), and brought a former National Transportation Safety Board official, Vernon Grose, into the studio for some valuable perspective. CNN showed a tape of TWA's first press conference at 11:30 p.m. EST; MSNBC didn't get to it until an hour later. Anchor Williams, meanwhile, was forced to pause at regular intervals, compose himself for the camera and start all over again--to provide updates for NBC affiliates picking up MSNBC's feed. The new channel's one coup: stunning live pictures of the burning wreckage, supplied by a WNBC-TV helicopter...
DIED. JOHN CHANCELLOR, 68, for four decades one of NBC News' journalistic pillars as reporter, anchor and commentator; of stomach cancer; in Princeton, New Jersey. During a wide-ranging career, Chancellor covered the 1957 Little Rock, Arkansas, school-integration crisis, served as Moscow correspondent and interviewed every U.S. President since Harry Truman. He also served briefly as Lyndon Johnson's Voice of America director. One memorable report occurred at the 1964 g.o.p. Convention: when forcibly hustled out for blocking an aisle, he signed off, "This is John Chancellor, somewhere in custody...
...many in the city admit, a casino is not the type of long-term investment that could help build an anchor industry. Yet in response to polls indicating support for gambling, the Governor has suggested that the initiative is the solution to the city's problems. While such political maneuvering has won him some support in the city, others see it for what it is: a bone thrown to a dog with the hope that it will shut...
HOSPITALIZED. JOHN CHANCELLOR, 68, veteran TV journalist and former NBC News anchor; for undisclosed reasons; in Princeton, New Jersey...
...said her father, who had visited China. That settled it. In the summer of 1972, as she recounts in a wry, wondering memoir, Red China Blues (Anchor Books; 405 pages; $23.95), she flew to Beijing to join the workers' paradise. A valued propaganda asset, she was enrolled at Beijing University, along with minders assigned to ensure her political purity. To the horror of her fellow students, she clamored to experience the nobility of manual labor, and was eventually allowed to serve at a Beijing tool factory, pretending to make lathes. Her naivete proved to be almost, but not quite, invincible...