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...Hopeful Blip. One would like to entertain idealistic dreams about the sudden consumer resistance to business as usual in television. Occasionally, indeed, a hopeful blip appears on the screen. Last week a worthy special, The Incredible Machine, running on PBS, whomped its commercial competitors in some major markets, gaining a record-breaking 36% audience share in New York. It was, ironically, part of a documentary series that has been booted off all three commercial networks for lack of audience appeal. Jennie, a PBS import about Winston Churchill's mother, has done better in some significant urban areas than...
...among the bedrock 25%, such questions do not seem to matter; their view of Nixon remains immovable. Some in this group take their cue from the Administration and consider Watergate a "blip" that has been overblown by a hostile press. Others are more cynical (though they would probably describe their attitude as realistic) and deride their opponents as hypocrites. To them, politics is always dirty, and Nixon's conduct in office only slightly worse than usual, if that. Furthermore, many Nixon backers consider him a man who sees and understands their interests, particularly in areas like school busing, welfare...
...many newsmen had acted responsibly, Nixon added that he knew some White House correspondents "hate my guts with a passion. The point is that if I were basically a liberal by their standards, if I had bugged out of Viet Nam, which they wanted, Watergate would have been a blip. They wouldn't have cared, but it is because I have not gone down the line with them that they care...
Voice communications with the ground were routine throughout the brief eleven-minute flight. The first and only hint of trouble came when a radar operator at Orly saw streaks around the DC-10's blip at 13,000 ft. Moments later the aircraft disappeared from the screen; from the location of the crash, it appears that the pilot, Captain Nejat Berkoz, 44, was attempting to land at Charles de Gaulle airport at Roissy, Europe's newest and largest, which goes into operation this week. He missed by several miles, crashing in the peaceful forest of Ermenonville, a game...
...stories filed during the previous 24 hours. Another command can call up the text of a story, which is then seen on the screen in segments of up to 31 lines at a time. As the editor electronically rolls the story forward, he can maneuver a lighted blip called a "cursor" to make changes in the copy. If he wants to revise a paragraph, he presses buttons that tell the cursor to remove that block of text. Then he types in his own version on the screen. The edited story is returned to the computer and sent to subscribing papers...