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...halfback Harvard lost anchorman Teddy DeMars and speedster Mark Wheeler. To replace these two, Restic has five reliable, if not spectacular, performers to choose from. Juniors Alky Tsitsos, Ed Cronin, and Steve Dart, and sophomores Burrelle Duvauchelle and Al Yates are all cut from approximately the same mold. All the halfback candidates are good blockers, but since Nick Leone's decision to drop out of football to devote his time to track, none of the Crimson backs has better than average speed...
...himself. His recent 2½-month vacation touched off rumors that he was being eased out of the picture, or even that he was seriously ill, but Cronkite was back at work last week, only mildly diverted by the network hoopla surrounding his tenth anniversary as a half-hour anchorman. He did take time out, though, to talk with TIME Contributing Editor Paul Gray about the vagaries of televised news and his plans for the future...
...Miniaturization of cameras and the like means that within the next ten years we'll be almost as portable as radio." Unlike some analysts, Cronkite does not believe that new electronic wizardry will render the anchorman obsolete. He voices pride that the Evening News "has been and will be totally lacking in show-biz gimmickry." A pattern that has worked for ten years, he insists, will not be lightly changed...
...Watching surrogates sitting in for him, had he not thought, "They're doing it all wrong?" An unexpected reply: "Not at all. I look at others and think they do a much better job on the air. I look at my tapes and shudder." Television's institutional anchorman shuddering at his own work? "I guess," he laughs, "if I were still young and really ambitious, I would have run back to New York before my vacation was over and gotten on the air before anyone noticed how much better my replacements were doing." Now that he is back...
...Maryland Invitational Harvard's two-mile relay got off to a solid start with freshman Bill Ockermann running a fast 1:54.5 second leg, but than John Quick dropped the baton, removing Harvard from the race and depriving anchorman Boy Clayton of a chance to show his speed...