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High above the chaos sat NBC Stars Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, seemingly lashed to a specially designed table that looked like two large boomerangs joined together. A dumb-waiter lifted hot food and hot poop up to them from below. Said Huntley: "We're on the quarterdeck of the mother ship...
...close agreement thereafter though sometimes oscillating wildly; at one point NBC's computer leaped from odds of 333-to-1 for Kennedy down to 6-to-1 for Kennedy, then back to 333-to-1. Eventually the machines seemed an almost human part of the election coverage. Said Brinkley at one point: "Our 501 has just had its 2 o'clock feeding of warm election statistics." But from the start, CBS managed to give its coverage a more exciting tone. Anchor Man Walter Cronkite read even early returns in momentous tones, and for a single, steady, unruffled...
...counters with the new IBM 7090 and its sidekick RAMAC 305 to tally ballots "within thousandths of a second," will also use humans, with Walter Cronkite as anchor man. NBC boasts an RCA 501 and a similar 1,000-man task force, commanded by Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, needless...
...Campaign and the Candidates (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). NBC sums up the situation, too, with Chet Huntley and David Brinkley...
...Mediterranean (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). The man is David Brinkley, who lightfoots his way through Greece, Lebanon, Egypt, Algeria, Spain, Monaco and France in an hour...