Word: anchors
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Pretzeled David. Even though their act is pretty much played out, NBC's Chet Huntley and David Brinkley still managed to be more diverting and amusing than the other so-called anchor men. Brinkley pretzels himself in an attempt to give the impression that he is doing his best to contain most of his natural wit, when actually he is straining to be funny. His best effort last week was his description of Illinois' Everett Dirksen as "a Shakespearean actor manque...
Character Sketches. Despite the ratings, the qualitative difference between NBC and CBS was actually quite slight. The convention, after all, was fully and exhaustively visible on all three networks. In the anchor booth, CBS tried a new vertical arrangement in contrast to the horizontal give-and-take of Huntley and Brinkley. CBS's congenial Walter Cronkite carried all the burden of coordinating CBS's coverage, while Eric Sevareid would appear every so often as a kind of deus ex machina and deliver auroral analyses uninhibited by routine details, or a shaft of wit, as when he recalled...
This spring a "floating trade fair," consisting of 100 businessmen and 400 trade exhibits aboard the merchant ship Centaur, dropped anchor in Hong Kong, Manila, Bangkok, Osaka, Tokyo and Singapore, piped 90,000 visitors aboard and transacted $1,125,000 worth of business right on deck. Australia's enterprising businessmen miss few opportunities to mold their exports to their customers' specific habits and needs: in a wily and woolly coup in Thailand, they recently landed a large order for plastic sneakers by producing them in a shade of orange that matched the robes worn by the country...
...footers. Someone asked him how he felt. "Like a dime among nickels," was his spunky reply. He does not feel dwarfed by his tough new job, either. At 65, he considers it "the best assignment I ever had," and wants to make the University of the Philippines "the anchor of democratic faith in this part of the world...
Lively Excitement. At Cambridge, Mass., where Harvard and M.I.T. anchor the spreading scientific complex along Route 128, researchers realize that they have been showered with federal riches beyond their most hopeful dreams of 20 years ago. But they are quick to point out that some fields, such as oceanography, are neglected, and astronomy, which is in a stage of lively excitement, must beg for funds...