Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lowest ratings you could have in the morning. The Morning Program proved us wrong." Indeed, its abysmal numbers were hurting the following shows of affiliate stations, and mass defections appeared imminent. So no one was surprised when, last week, CBS axed The Morning Program and dismissed Executive Producer Bob Shanks and Hosts Mariette Hartley and RollandSmith...
...since Charles Foster Kane's immortal "Rosebud" has a deathbed utterance caused such a stir. CIA Director William Casey, partly paralyzed and gravely ill following brain surgery, was in Washington's Georgetown University Hospital last winter when an unexpected visitor entered his room. It was Washington Post Reporter Bob Woodward, who had interviewed Casey off and on for four years and had somehow slipped through CIA security for one last encounter. So Woodward says in his new book, Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987 (Simon & Schuster; $21.95), relating that the interview lasted just four minutes and Casey...
...their pocket change on a candidate. A year ahead is a little crazy, sure -- but take heed. Back in 1959 a tousle-haired young reporter for the Boston Globe came home after some lonely wanderings with a young Senator and mused on paper that the Kennedys were coming. Bob Healy's evidence was mostly in his gut -- but so right. The New York Times's Johnny Apple roamed the prairie hustings with Jimmy (who?) Carter in 1975 and startled the world with a story in October that the Georgian might...
...Senator Bob Dole has been nipping at Bush's heels for a long time. Now he has been cloned. Liddy Dole is not only his wife; she is also a national political figure with presidential potential of her own. She left her Cabinet job as Transportation Secretary last Wednesday to join her husband's crusade. There has never been a combination like this in American history...
...Republican defection ensures an anti- Bork majority on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Southern moderates join the stampede. -- The Democrats are in disarray as Michael Dukakis fires his campaign manager for leaking an "attack video." -- What exactly did William Casey tell Bob Woodward, and when did he tell it? -- The worst earthquake since 1971 rocks Los Angeles...