Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...handoff to Rogers 30 yards ahead of her closest competitor. Rogers widened the gap to 40 yards, handing the baton to Linsley with a 2:20.7 split. Linsley sped through her 800-meter leg in 2:19.0 to hand off to Beckford. The freshman star then ran the anchor leg in 2:09.1 to win the race in 9:04.4, more than ten seconds ahead...
Carter can be forgiven a little pride. "The staunchness of our position has been an anchor," he declares. "It has given others time to build up their positions." He sees now the possibility of long-range impact in world opinion against any other extensions of Soviet power...
...Some time next year Cronkite's program will be rechristened the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, and like Cronkite, he will have the title of managing editor. Uncle Walter, 63, who chose to stay out of the selection process for his successor, plans to continue as anchor at least through the presidential inauguration next January. "I've inaugurated every President since Harry Truman," he said last week. "I want to do one more." After that he is planning to stay on at CBS doing documentaries, special assignments and a new science show, Universe...
Lowell House dominated the women's 200 meter medley relay, while Quincy House cruised to victory in the men's version. Quincy's anchor man Lance Miller awed the crowd by making up for his "open" lane turn with sheer power and speed in the straights. "We blew them out of the water!" said the jubilant Miller, who shaved his beard for the event...
...after 18 years as TV's avuncular anchor, Walter Cronkite was talking retirement-even though his current $600,000-a-year contract with CBS Evening News has another year to run and his commitment to the network as nonretirable talent is unchanged. Some telegossips said Walter wanted out; others suggested he was helping CBS retain Probable Successor Dan Rather, who was being heavily wooed by ABC. Either way Cronkite could certainly leave with honorable profit in other fields...