Word: chet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rafters-for the Urban Coalition with a taped TV commercial featuring the message: "Love-it comes in all colors." With professional help from Mitch Miller, Leontyne Price and the cast of Hair, lung power for the coalition chorus was supplied by Ed Sullivan, Arthur Goldberg, Henry Fonda, Ralph Bunche, Chet Huntley, John D. Rockefeller III, Johnny Carson and nearly 100 other distinguished Americans of every hue and hairstyle. All the group needs now is a title. The Urbanes...
...another column, Baker reported that "we are at NBC News headquarters in Provo, Utah. Chet Huntley's face is in the hands of the cosmeticians. They have massaged its familiar wrinkles and laugh lines into an expression of utter objectivity." Meanwhile in Biloxi, Miss., David Brinkley is having his eyebrows shaved so he can't raise them...
...Hoppe of the San Francisco Chronicle went to the future tense. It is January 1971, and President Nixon has just assessed the state of the Union. "Well, Chet, do you have an instant analysis?" "Yes, I do, David. I'd say it was the most magnificent, glorious, stirring speech since the Gettysburg Address. I think my biggest thrill came when he said, T want to make one thing perfectly clear.' I always get a thrill when I realize the President's going to make one thing perfectly clear...
...could be further from effete snobbery than Chet Huntley. Deeply -almost lyrically-affected by his childhood in Montana, he is quite simply puzzled and troubled about America. When he was a child in the West, he says, "Our idealisms were be kind to your neighbor. You respected your father and your mother, you exercised thrift and you saved-you saved for a rainy day." Today, "we really don't know ourselves. We haven't had time in the past 60 years to stop and get acquainted with ourselves. Our youngsters have idealisms which are somewhat grander in proportion...
HUNTLEY, Chester (Chet), 57, NBC-News correspondent. Born in Cardwell, Mont., graduated from the University of Washington, 1934 (B.A.). Began radio newscasting with KPCB Seattle in 1934. Joined NBC in 1955, and within a year was teamed from New York with Brinkley in Washington. Married, two children. Registered as Independent...