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Still, the three networks together spent $5 million on the event, according to one former network executive; shipped in 50 tons of equipment; and showcased star correspondents. All three evening news anchors -- Dan Rather, Peter Jennings and Tom Brokaw -- were in attendance. Also along were Washington heavyweights like ABC's Sam Donaldson and a morning anchor from each network: Today's Bryant Gumbel, Good Morning, America's Charles Gibson and CBS This Morning's Kathleen Sullivan. The networks built temporary studios on a balcony at the Rossiya Hotel. Soviet officials even lighted up the onion domes of St. Basil...
...another matter. With little chance for enterprising scoops, the networks elbowed one another for minor coups. ABC noted that it was the first to transmit pictures from inside the Kremlin, and CBS landed an interview with former Moscow Party Chief Boris Yeltsin. CBS's Rather, meanwhile, was the only anchor to get a face-to- face encounter with Gorbachev. It came by chance when the CBS crew, shooting inside the Kremlin, spotted the Soviet leader's entourage. While CBS Executive David Buksbaum created a diversionary scene, Rather squeezed past security guards for a few brief questions. (CNN's Steve Hurst...
...Evening News away from bland Washington stories and toward an emphasis on heart-tugging TV "moments"; who ruthlessly divided the CBS News staff into "yesterday" people (those identified with the Murrow-Cronkite era) and "today" people (the younger, TV-fluent crowd); who pushed for hiring Phyllis George as co-anchor of the CBS Morning News. "Sauter was in charge," writes Boyer, "and it was clear that he wasn't there to validate the glories of CBS News past. He was there to vanquish the past, to repudiate an approach to television that was seen as hidebound and irrelevant...
...took the practiced ear of Richard Nixon to tell us that. Give him his due. He's got a feel for the pols, and he can sum them up with a brutal line or two. On Meet the Press a few weeks ago, Anchor Tom Brokaw asked if Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, the leading Democratic presidential contender, was just "too dull to be an effective nominee." Nixon was ready, dark flash from the eyes. "Let me answer that question this way. I've often said that the best politics is poetry rather than prose. Jesse Jackson is a poet. Cuomo...
...head-to-head for the team victory. President Derek Bok arrived in time to catch the deciding race. After the first leg, Harvard trailed by a narrow margin. The Crimson's second lag narrowed the gap enough for the third man to overcome Northeastern and hand-off to the anchor with a competitive edge. Northeastern continued to press at Harvard's heels to the end, but the Crimson won the season opener by just four tenths of a second, with a time of 3:21.4, beating Northeastern's time...