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...former Anchorman Walter Cronkite pitched in, as his successor Dan Rather repeated, "to put this thing into perspective"; NBC Anchor John Chancellor worked side by side with his successor, Tom Brokaw; ABC Good Morning America Correspondent Steve Bell co-anchored with Frank Reynolds, assisted by Ted Koppel, Barbara Walters and David Brinkley, in his debut on ABC . They, in turn, called on government leaders and political analysts for help in sorting out the implications of the tragedy in Cairo...
...show was on. The Michael weighed anchor, feigned a southward course toward Manila, then swung north up the Chinese coast. At one point, a typhoon threatened to engulf the frail expedition, but fortunately, the storm veered out to sea. Entering the harbor at Swatow, the crew had another bad moment when a Chinese gunboat approached, only to pass by harmlessly. The unloading process went smoothly as villagers snipped packets of Bibles from the submerged barge with rope cutters supplied by the smugglers, then carried them to waiting bikes, buses and trucks (Open Doors clandestinely had supplied $75,000 to hire...
...bounteous land grant, the interminable individualist homestead unfolding toward the horizon) and the simultaneous need for shelter that its harshness imposed. A people so socially and geographically mobile used housing as an instrument to trumpet their wherewithal, their substance, their civic presence. They have sometimes nearly impoverished themselves to anchor their identities in their homes. In a 1920 magazine serial called "More Stately Mansions," a social-climbing wife pouts and wheedles her husband: "Dickie, I've simply got to have it... A nice house gives a man self-respect and confidence." A house...
...also a fundamental aspect of the citizen's share in government. "The jury, which is the most energetic means of making the people rule, is also the most effective means of teaching it to rule," said Alexis de Tocqueville. Thomas Jefferson described the jury system as "the only anchor ever yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution...
...treatment of his NBC Magazine with David Brinkley. The show was pitted first against CBS's top-rated Dallas, later against The Incredible Hulk. Brinkley denied reports of contractual disputes with NBC News President William Small. More significant, perhaps, was the news that Today Host Tom Brokaw will anchor Nightly News with Roger Mudd starting next April. Said Brinkley last week: "I'm not happy to be leaving, but there's nothing at NBC that I really want...