Word: anchors
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...KRON to win the blessing of the California department of social services for its The Waiting Child feature. "There were a lot of questions about sensitivity and commitment," says News Director Pat Stevens. Since the feature began appearing seven months ago, however, the concern and involvement of News Anchor Rita Channon have been amply evident; on several segments she has dabbed at her eyes while talking to a child. Says Joe Pecora, a suburban San Francisco social worker who placed a nine-year-old boy four months after he appeared on The Waiting Child: "Without that series, we could...
...contrary. With a breathless voice, and a fey, almost stupid demeanor. Walker's Sybil seems both attractive and repellent. Much of Private Lives' fun results from watching Sybil evolve as the play unfolds. Walker's confidence--and gestures that skirt the melodramatic but manage to remain realistic firmly anchor her character, if only in space. But as good as Walker is, she can't compete with Taylor and Burton, which is not to say that Taylor and Burton are all that good...
...away. But for some 30 investors with a special sense of romance-and risk-the payoff from an unusual Florida operation was the kind they could touch, even fondle: silver ingots the size of paving blocks, gold chains, gold bars, fistfuls of gold and silver coins, a coral-encrusted anchor, a bronze cannon, an emerald ring-all lost at sea 361 years...
Donaldson savors the "terribly good exposure" and high pay (about $450,000) on the White House beat. He has already held the post longer than any of his first-string network rivals and almost twice as long as one of his most celebrated predecessors, NBC Anchor Tom Brokaw. Says Donaldson: "It takes a certain resiliency to persevere in covering the White House-or, a critic might say, a dullness of wit." He has tried out as anchor on ABC's Sunday-night newscast and on Nightline when Ted Koppel is away. But whatever else...
...Crimson also repeated as champion in the 800 free relay Friday, as senior Tom Verdin, swimming the anchor spot normally held by Chappell, held off a late surge by Columbia's Tony Corbisiero. American record holder in the 800 meter free, to take the event by .05 seconds...