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Carter can be forgiven a little pride. "The staunchness of our position has been an anchor," he declares. "It has given others time to build up their positions." He sees now the possibility of long-range impact in world opinion against any other extensions of Soviet power...
...Some time next year Cronkite's program will be rechristened the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, and like Cronkite, he will have the title of managing editor. Uncle Walter, 63, who chose to stay out of the selection process for his successor, plans to continue as anchor at least through the presidential inauguration next January. "I've inaugurated every President since Harry Truman," he said last week. "I want to do one more." After that he is planning to stay on at CBS doing documentaries, special assignments and a new science show, Universe...
...clear loser in all this is Roger Mudd, 52, who has been understudying Cronkite for the anchor role for almost a decade. But some CBS executives noted that Mudd, though an experienced Washington correspondent, has never worked overseas, is not the compliant sort of company man that CBS appreciates, and is thought by some at the network to appear a bit too stolid on the screen. Still, Mudd was so sure he had the job that he recently refused to fill in one week for Cronkite; he wanted to go skiing instead. "I think he overestimated his hand," says...
...News have come a long way since then. The razzle-dazzle special effects that Arledge imported from the sports division have been muted, or else copied by the competition. Barbara Walters, lured in 1976 from NBC with that notorious $1 million-a-year contract, has left the anchor duties to do interviews. Her incompatible coanchor, Harry Reasoner, has fled to CBS'S 60 Minutes. The man who has emerged as their replacement, experienced Newsman Frank Reynolds, 56, has given ABC's World News Tonight stability and style...
Within a year or so, Rather realized that anchor positions were opening up on the CBS weekend news shows and that he was not getting them. He went to then News Vice President Gordon Manning to complain. "Manning said, 'We think you are as good a reporter as we've got, but we don't think you are as good leadership material as we've got,' " Rather recalls. "I found myself saying, 'Nuts to you, Johnny, I've been to hell and back for this organization, and I think I can do anything...