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Standout goaltender Betty Ippolito and capable backup Katie Williams return to anchor a defense that had few lapses in '79. Annie Velie leads an experienced midfield corps where only speedy Sarah Chubb, inactive all summer because of illness, is a question mark...
When David Brinkley, 60, left his co-anchor post at NBC Nightly News last fall for the pastures of commentary, industry observers speculated that perhaps the network was tiring of his detached, low-key delivery. Brinkley was not sorry to leave after 24 years: "I had been doing it longer than anyone dead or alive," he says. "And I didn't feel that I was doing anything that required any great skill. It was too easy...
...unhappy about the delays in delivery. U.S. piers have little storage capacity, so that railroad cars stocked with the black stuff wait weeks to be unloaded. Port channels are neither large nor deep enough to handle the traffic. Through most of the summer there were about 50 colliers at anchor on any given day at Hampton Roads, Va., the largest coal port on the East Coast...
...convention's close, several hundred delegates and hangers-on gathered below the CBS booth chanting "Walter! Walter! Walter!" It was Cronkite's last stint as a convention anchor, and the crowd was giving him a rousing salute. At a CBS party a few hours later, colleagues presented him with a 1952-vintage microphone that plays a tape of Walter broadcasting his first convention, the Democrats' get-together that year in Chicago. But Cronkite seemed in no hurry to go: he said he would be back in some capacity in 1984. After all, even if many conventions offer...
James Moriarty, a University of San Diego marine archaeologist, identifies it as a so-called messenger stone, probably of ancient Chinese origin. Such a stone could be sent sliding down an anchor chain, via the hole, to strip away accumulations of seaweed. Another stony relic, discov ered five years ago off Los Angeles by two sports divers, Wayne Baldwin and Robert Miestrell, also hints at an early Chinese presence. To Moriarty and his assistant, Archaeologist Larry Pierson, it looks very much like the type of mill stone known to have been used by Chinese sailors as anchors...