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...discovering what it feels like to be TV stars. An American Family, the public broadcasting series in which they are featured, is no Ozzie-and-Harriet confection, but the story of their lives and the lives of their five children-with real laughs, real tears and a real breakup that resulted in their divorce...
Still, the networks rarely change a winning team, and NBC News has recently had some lukewarm seasons. As a producer, Frank first united Chet Huntley and David Brinkley during the 1956 convention coverage, but the pair's breakup in 1970 left a vacuum in NBC's flagship evening news that has never been satisfactorily filled. ABC's aggressive team of Harry Reasoner and Howard K. Smith has chipped away at NBC's ratings, and CBS remains ahead in the competition. On the plus side-in prestige if not revenue-NBC is the only network running regularly...
...make him happy. He must believe that our relationship is forever and work for it, just as I want to believe it and work for it. And if it is not forever, then he must not be that sort of hateful person who will be inflamed at a breakup...
Still, the breakup "was a terrible nightmare," admits Liv. "It was so public. I felt everybody was looking at me. I don't know where you can hide your sorrows any more." Scandal magazines and newspapers hounded her, and reporters and photographers followed her every movement. One day, to get away from them, friends took her out the back door of a Copenhagen hotel, leaving her for a minute in an alley while they fetched a cab. "I was standing there in the garbage," she remembers, "and I felt it was really symbolic. Something died in me. I resolved...
That drastic proposal, which would cause one of the biggest business divestitures in U.S. history, seemed to leave nearly everyone magnificently unmoved. A total breakup of the company, scoffed IBM Chairman T. Vincent Learson, "will never happen." IBM's lawyers accused the Justice Department of attempting to complicate and stall the case further by expanding its complaint beyond the company's domestic operations to include its fast-expanding international business as well. Even investors, after an initially skittish reaction that sent the company's stock tumbling 14 points, rallied behind Wall Street's perennial darling...