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...sure if there'd be a show without Ted." Shales says. "He's as important to 'Nightline' as Carroll O'Connor was to 'All in the Family,' and the similarities don't end there." Shales refers not to Archie Bunker's bigotry but rather to O'Connor's ego, which, he says, became legendary in television circles. "Ted has an enormous ego It's impossible not to at that level...
Ferraro has been on a very fast track ever since she went to Washington in 1979 as a new Congresswoman from Archie Bunker's district. Eager to work her way up from lowly assignments like the Post Office and Civil Service Committee, Ferraro uncomplainingly attended 8 a.m. meetings, took on tedious tasks and carefully cultivated the Democratic leadership. O'Neill became her champion. With his blessing she was elected secretary of the Democratic caucus, a job traditionally reserved for a woman. In her third term, O'Neill put her on the powerful House Budget Committee, bypassing more...
...just lost two of my best friends," he says. "They were picked off right next to me. Then, in St.-Lô, we had just seized an artillery battery and taken all these prisoners when our own artillery started hitting all around us. I jumped into a bunker hole with two of the Germans. They marked on the side of the wall that they were 17 years old and had bicycled for three weeks from Germany to get there." Says Van Hoy, his face full of wonder, "You know I actually felt sorry for them...
...visit by foreign journalists, Hanoi brings out several military heroes of the Dien Bien Phu siege. Lieut. Colonel Van Luyen, 52, who commanded an artillery unit, shows the newsmen the refurbished French command bunker where the Viet Minh proclaimed their victory by waving a red Vietnamese flag from its corrugated and sandbagged rooftop. Farther out lie two of the eight major French perimeter command posts, code-named Beatrice and Eliane by the garrison commander, General Christian de Castries. After three decades, U.S.-made artillery, including 155-mm and 105-mm howitzers, which were supplied to the French by Washington...
...exhibit is called the "Wealth of the Ancient World." And the fortune that bought it is one of the largest in the modern world. Eight years ago, Multimillionaires Nelson Bunker Hunt, 58, and William Herbert Hunt, 55, set out to build the finest collection of Greek corns possible. The 166 pieces in the show, which also includes priceless vases and Hellenic and Roman bronzes, have already been on display in Detroit, Fort Worth and Richmond, Va. Last week they came to Dallas, the Hunts' home town, and the brothers dropped by the new Museum of Art for a look...