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Eyewitness to History (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). One of the week's major news stories, told by network reporters with Walter Cronkite as anchor...
Like its banyan tree, which drops roots from its branches to anchor itself firmly in the earth, Florida is reaching out to broaden its growing base. No longer does the state suggest a congeries of retired queen bees, living unproductive Jives on husbands' insurance and making the worker bees who serve them miserable with demanding, captious ways and parsimonious tips. Florida has become a boiling melting pot, mixing retired Ohioans with young Michiganders, New Englanders with Hoosiers. The state now boasts not only the world's largest shuffleboard club (in St. Petersburg) but its largest missile testing ground...
...many deep parts of the ocean the crust is only three miles thick-and for this reason the leaders of Project Mohole decided that the drilling should be done from a special ship floating in three miles of water. The ship cannot be held over the drill hole by anchor cables extending sideways. Such cables hang in curves and would yield too much to changes of pull from winds and currents. Much more promising is the active system of keeping the ship accurately over the hole by means of propellers pushing it back whenever it starts to drift away from...
...wave of conservatism that could easily become the phenomenon of our time. Nobody knows for sure its present strength or its future potential. But every politician, newspaperman, analyst and civic leader knows that something is afoot that could drastically alter our course as a nation." It has an anchor in the "conservative movement" among college students, he said, who "know that this thing that has gone along for 30 years and has cost $400 billion under the phony name of liberalism has not worked...
Kirkland added a 50.7 anchor leg for the mile relay squad, but the team, thanks to a 54.0 lead off by Frank Yeomans, was shut...