Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from NBC, ABC won Walters with an offer of $1 million a year for five years and a job that will let her sleep until, well, at least 7:30 a.m. Some time between now and next fall, Walters will join an at first sulfurously reluctant Harry Reasoner in anchoring ABC's lagging Evening News. She will be the first woman ever to fill a regular network anchor slot, the most prestigious job in television journalism. She will also become history's highest-paid journalist...
Junior Todd Hooks repeated Saturday's double by winning the 100 and blowing open a close race in the anchor spot of the 440 relay. Sophomore Paul Organ took first in the 120-yard high hurdles with a time...
...bring experts from round the world to Washington for all-expense-paid weekend seminars, short-term research projects and yearlong fellowships. Its goal: to deepen U.S. understanding of the Soviet Union. Says Kennan: "This is the only truly national institution devoted to Soviet studies. It can serve as an anchor in bad times and a channel for improved communications in good times...
...ship, which earlier had undergone successful sea trials, headed from Brest on her maiden voyage on Jan. 24 and ran into a sudden squall. Then the ship's engines inexplicably quit, leaving it to drift in 60-m.p.h. gusts; the 30-man crew dropped two anchors but the anchor chains snapped. So the voyage covered only about 35 miles, ending against the rocks of the island of Ushant. There the tanker rests, sinking slowly as water seeps in through gashes torn in her hull by the rocks. Last week the Onassis group began final attempts to refloat the tanker...
Cooper, who had the best day at the races of any Crimson aquaman, swam a stunning 45.9 anchor leg for the Harvard medley relay team. The medley squad, which also benefitted from George Keim's blazing 50.4 fly leg, placed a respectable fifth. Cooper's splits were the best ever recorded by a Harvard medleyist. The Princeton entry won relay in a very fast...