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...with an early advantage and the momentum to boot, Mike Clasby, Bob MacGuire and Eileen King took center stage for Harvard to chug beer...
...Harry Reasoner is given the boot is the day you will see ABC's ratings go down-and by more than 1%. Barbara Walters may be taking a licking (according to some bleeding heart), but it's good for business and that's what she's getting paid for. She can take...
...such a policy is proclaimed, to what extent can it be modified without becoming capricious? Can America practice selective morality-taking a high moral tone with some nations, while making pragmatic exceptions for others? The Vance statement arbitrarily condemned three countries not only as immoral but as unimportant to boot. To his credit, Vance admitted that there was a strain of hypocrisy in the new policy. It raised the specter of endless arguments over which countries deserve or do not deserve assistance...
...word, the game was boring. In two words, it was really dull. In three words (with a contraction to boot), Yale couldn't skate. In three and over, the Crimson icemen faced a "must not lose" situation against the visiting Elis on Saturday afternoon and Channel 7. So they didn...
...evening news. Still, news viewing is up in general, and ABC'S share of the total three-network news audience has not changed. Rallying to Walters' defense, the Washington Post's Sally Quinn argued that Walters' coanchor, Harry Reasoner, should be the one given the boot: "He's insulting her on the air. He's being rude and sarcastic and putting her down." Richard Salant, president of CBS News, is also sympathetic. Says he: "She's taking an awful licking." Walters herself seems unruffled. "The reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated...