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That, briefly, is how Carl Stokes, the former mayor of Cleveland and the first black mayor of a major U.S. city, came to undertake a TV career as one of the station's two anchor men last week. Professional TV newsmen were loudly disturbed at the incursion of a partisan figure into an arena that still strains for an air of impartiality. "Where can I run for mayor?" NBC's John Chancellor reportedly needled Stokes...
Viewers had other complaints. In his first few appearances, Stokes read the news as if he were practicing for an elocution lesson. NBC apparently had told him and fellow Anchor Man Paul Udell to try for an informal, bantering approach-the secret of the ABC outlet's success. Both men found the formula uncomfortable at first, partly because they were out of sync with one another and partly because they were trying too hard. Strained humor, by definition, is no humor...
...apparent to the G.O.P. that the cost of installing the temporary facilities for delegates and the press would run close to $ 1,000,000. On top of that, Graham began to insist that the G.O.P. invest heavily in permanent structures such as a new ticket booth, two permanent television anchor booths and a closed-circuit television-monitor system. That would have brought the total cost of the convention to around $1.5 million. Richard L. Herman, vice chairman of the party's committee on arrangements, finally blew up. Graham refused to budge. As he blandly explained last week: "I didn...
...followed shortly by another with Syria, is a departure from the former Soviet practice of dealing with the Arab states primarily through Cairo. It also gives the Russians a desired window on the Persian Gulf. Kosygin had scarcely taken off for home when a Soviet naval flotilla dropped anchor in the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr on a goodwill visit...
Like the Apollo 15 astronauts who toured the mountainous terrain near Hadley Rille last summer. Young and Duke will have the services of a lunar rover equipped with an earth-controlled color-TV camera. The rover's seat belts have been redesigned to anchor passengers more comfortably during the jouncing ride in the moon's weak gravity. The electric drilling equipment that caused Apollo 15 Astronaut Dave Scott to grunt and curse as he tried to cut into the lunar soil has been modified. Other improvements include: new foods (ham steak, fruit desserts), special drugs and liquids...