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...twelve, the aggressive Pennsylvania golden girl with the pale blue eyes seemed unstoppable. One of her Ithaca College journalism professors told her, "There's no place for broads in broadcasting." So she worked her way up from radio disc jockey and newsreader to TV reporter and local anchor in Houston and Philadelphia; she put in 16-hour days to eliminate any chance that newsroom chauvinists could tag her as an electronic bunny...
Before being hired by NBC in 1977, she said to an associate, "I'm going to be a network anchor, and I'm going to do it fast." In short order, Savitch was a cool and collected on-air presence in American living rooms. She covered the 1980 political conventions, anchored NBC's Saturday edition of the nightly news and was a featured correspondent on the network magazine shows Prime Time Sunday and NBC Magazine. Her greatest exposure came from 60-second prime-time updates, now called NBC News Digest, which she began...
Savitch became increasingly isolated after the tragedy, and her career seemed to stall. She took a partial leave from NBC to host the PBS program Frontline, and later lost her Saturday anchor slot. There were rumors that she had turned to cocaine to fuel her still relentless pace. Friends deny it. "Work is my narcotic. I get high from it," she told a colleague. But some fellow workers wondered, notably after she slurred words and stammered on a recent Digest spot...
...they held for gold, which thus served as an underpinning for the system. But these arrangements came apart in 1971, when the Nixon Administration, faced with the possibility that other nations could demand more gold than the U.S. had, stopped exchanging the metal for dollars. Without gold as an anchor, exchange rates began to float freely...
...Minutes is the foremost practitioner of the ambush interview, and the network's evening news anchor, Dan Rather, a former reporter on the show, has conducted more than a few. So when TV Reporter Steve Wilson of San Francisco got nowhere with repeated requests to question Rather about 60 Minutes' methods for the syndicated Breakaway, he confronted Rather outside CBS News' New York studios. The anchor reacted in the way that people he has ambushed have sometimes wanted to: he turned Wilson down on-camera, using a four-letter word for a sex act. But Wilson...