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...slightly beat-up set, with Cronkite in the middle of what looks like a newspaper copy desk, is the way Cronkite wants it. Let other networks experiment with big anchor desks like airline counters, glitzy overhead lighting like a Vegas hotel lobby, or space-age backdrops of multiple TV screens-Cronkite knows the value, in maintaining listener loyalty, of what he calls the "old shoe" factor. It irritates him when young interviewers ask him how much of the broadcast he writes, as if this alone distinguishes a newsman from an announcer (his written contribution is "purely whimsical-from...
John Paul left Nagasaki with the new Japanese nickname of Yuki Otoko (Snowman) and flew to equally chilly Anchor age, where he celebrated an outdoor Mass and took a 90-ft. fling at driving a sled drawn by nine rambunctious huskies. "This was great," said the Pontiff. Then off again, up over the North Pole and back to Rome. To the faithful who braved the Nagasaki blizzard, John Paul had said good-naturedly, "It's good for the faith." So, apparently, was the taxing 20,500-mile journey by the most traveled Pope in history...
...eyed and steady-voiced, the 64-year old broadcaster, who will be replaced by Dan Rather as anchor of the CBS Evening News next Monday, said he felt "some sadness" at his departure, but added he feared too much had been made of his retirement...
Users of small computers have found that the machines can perform nearly all the functions of their bigger brothers, the refrigerator-size minicomputers and the mainframe models that occupy whole rooms. In San Francisco, President Fritz Maytag of Anchor Brewing Co. uses the Apple II machine on his desk to plot his company's financial future. The United American Bank of Knoxville, Tenn., has sold Tandy computers to 115 customers, who pay bills and check statements and balances at home on the machines. Bruce Kemp, an executive with Merrill Lynch in New York City, does stock analysis...
...holds the University record in both the 100-yd. and 200-yd. butterfly. Yntema is also the only Harvard swimmer ever to take home four gold medals from the Eastern Seaboard Championships. In 1974 he won both of the butterfly events and the 200-yd. freestyle and swam the anchor leg on the winning 800-yd. freestyle relay...