Word: breezier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nailed to the Floor. Of course the pattern of trading up has two sides. While sales of the bread-and-butter Chevy tumbled in October from 172,000 to 135,000, the breezier-looking Chevelle rose from 24,000 to 33,000. Sales of the regular Pontiac declined by 4,000, but the fancy Tempest increased 7,000, and the Grand Prix and GTO were also way up. The standard Ford slipped from 114,000 to 99,000, but Fairlane and Mustang both increased...
After that debacle, along came Huntley-Brinkley with their breezier approach to the political conventions of 1956. "I was the old hand," says Cronkite, "but they received the critical attention." To make matters worse, by the 1964 conventions, the network competition was out of hand. Lugging their equipment with them, TV reporters swarmed over the convention floor. Quiet and restrained, Walter Cronkite tended to get lost in the crush. CBS executives became so panicked by the Huntley-Brinkley ratings that they rigged Cronkite with a new headset-one earphone tuned to the podium, the other to the control room. Their...