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...judgment, and that this somehow would make them objective. Almost to a man, broadcasters reject objectivity as a goal and insist that they are fair. An objective man, says David Brinkley, "would have to be put away in an institution because he's some sort of vegetable." ABC Anchor Man Frank Reynolds was quoted by Agnew as saying, "You can't expunge all your private convictions," and during the 1968 campaign charged Richard Nixon with a suppressed "natural instinct to smash the enemy with a club or go after him with a meat ax." Av Westin, executive producer...
...Court, 1789-1969, describes the change in another way: "The magic thing that the court has done is to have initiated a new moral sense in the country, a direction that the legislative and executive branches of government had failed to take. The Supreme Court used to be the anchor of the ship of state. Now it functions as the rudder...
...mayhem in the universities, we decided to do something other than riot," says Lauri Noreila, president of the student union at Helsinki's School of Economics. What he and his fellows did was organize a floating exhibition of Finnish products on a 10,000-ton ferry, then anchor it last fall beneath London's Tower Bridge. More than 100 firms participated in the "Finn-focus" exhibit, which produced $5,000,000 in export orders...
...evaluate his book." For Martin, the most memorable moment of the visit was reached at dinner, when Fielding proposed a toast. The convivial host explained that it was an old Danish custom to make toasts that played on the name of the guest. Peter was easy: "The rock, the anchor, the beginning. . ."Gavin was harder; next, Fielding had to translate Scott's given name into Irish: "Kevin, the emerald spirit of wit . . ." For Photographer Ben Martin, he spoke in terms of Ben Franklin: "Ben, the mechanical genius, the diplomat...
Married. Richard C. Pistell, 41, onetime merchant seaman who dropped anchor at Wall Street in 1948 with $50 in his pocket, now captains Goldfield Corp., one of the fastest growing and most aggressive conglomerates (TIME, May 9); and the Marquesa de Portago; both for the third time; in Manhattan...