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...screen: "On CBS the ordinary viewer trying to watch a political convention sees so much of the anchor man and his star reporters that the program might well be called Walter Cronkite and His Friends...Likewise, the NBC coverage might be better known as the David Brinkley Show...I think the time has come to ban the media mob from the floor...Then the viewers could enjoy the game-excuse me, the convention-as it is actually played in all its sweet, boring interludes...
...first AIM ad took NBC's David Brinkley to task last January in the Washington Post for likening the U.S. to 19th century Prussia because it spent about two-thirds of "regular tax income" for military purposes (AIM claimed the U.S. figure was more like 40% of all income taxes). In June, AIM took a two-column ad in the New York Times to condemn Correspondent Anthony Lewis for reporting as fact from Hanoi that the U.S. mining of Haiphong harbor was ineffective without checking out the facts. AIM plans to place another ad in the Times charging Columnist...
...decorative addition to the campaign. When he was elected to the Senate, Eagleton announced: "I want to be regarded as a great United States Senator. I'd like to be re-elected three terms, acquire some seniority, get some good committees and hear James Reston or David Brinkley say some day, 'He's a pretty good Senator. He works hard at it.' " Now his ambition is that some day someone will say he is a pretty good Vice President...
...familiar faces. Theodore H. White will once again offer insights to Walter Cronkite and CBS's audience while he ponders the making of the next President. Chet Huntley has long since defected to American Airlines, so NBC's John Chancellor will serve as straight man for David Brinkley. Conservative William Buckley has switched both networks and adversaries. In 1968 he exchanged bitchy broadsides with Gore Vidal on ABC; this time he will have morning jousts with John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvard's liberal economist, on NBC's Today show...
Married. David Brinkley, 51, the puckish half of NBC's Huntley-Brinkley team for 14 years and now the network's star commentator; and Susan Benfer Adolph, 32; both for the second time; in Virginia...