Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year's major departures was the sideshow. CBS hired Columnist Art Buchwald in hopes of bringing humor to the proceedings, but during most of his appearances he seemed much less effective than in print. In one sketch, though, while playing an uncommitted delegate wooed by party girls at a hotel pool, Art got off his best line: "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the cabana." ABC scheduled nightly debates between the self-styled "Odd Couple," Conservative Editor William Buckley Jr. and Novelist Gore Vidal, whose latest book is the sex farce, Myra Breckinridge...
...delegation, chasing down the rumors that are always the prime medium of convention exchange. TV in general not only enabled rumors to feed on themselves but tended to make much of flurries that had subsided by the time TV got around to reporting them. Of all the floor men, CBS's Mike Wallace was the fastest on his feet, beating his rivals to the right politician time after time...
...CBS's, and television's, star of the week, though, was Anchorman Walter Cronkite. It was sweet vindication. In 1964, when the CBS news rating fell off, the panic-stricken network jettisoned him between conventions. This year, keeping on a "low-residue diet, a trick I learned from the astronauts," and forsaking his pipe to keep his throat moist, Cronkite stayed on top of the story all week. He constantly re-queried his field men when he thought they did not question pungently enough. He got off his share of quips. He correctly forecast, for example, that...
...CBS picked up some of the most telling reaction shots-Pat Nixon staring cold-eyed when a nominator mentioned Nelson Rockefeller's undefeated election record, Ronald Reagan's mother-in-law chanting "We want Reagan!" ABC also had its moments with a couple of prefilmed reports, including the only network penetration into a caucus (Idaho) and into the Nixon command trailer, which resembled a bookie joint...
...CBS predicted Nixon's first ballot victory at 5:36 p.m. on nominating day, earlier than either wire service...