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That televised tirade would not have been remarkable coming from a public official demanding equal time. But it came from Len O'Connor, Chicago's most respected television commentator, and O'Connor used his regular evening-news spot on WMAQ-which happens to be owned by NBC-to castigate his employer of 34 years...
...following two evenings a fortnight ago, O'Connor again startled his audience of 725,000 by pressing his attack. He said that the network had "compromised my integrity," and excoriated his superiors-by name-for plotting to fire him. Said O'Connor: "If NBC had any guts, they would do it right now with some degree of honor...
...Connor's three-night burst of invective, which must be a bizarre first for television news, was the high point of an incestuous melodrama starring the crusty silver-maned commentator, Illinois politicians, station and network executives, the FCC and a couple of public-spirited wives...
...dispute began last January, when O'Connor broadcast a commentary criticizing Governor Dan Walker for failing to fulfill a campaign pledge to do away with the patronage system in state government. "Walker wasted no time," he said, "loading up the payroll with people who had worked...
...adviser. That sort of speculation is dismissed by both Rand and Greenspan. He says he has little contact with Rand now, and even before the CEA job came, meetings were limited to dinners every month or so with her and her husband of 45 years, Artist Frank O'Connor. On these occasions, Greenspan adds, conversation is just "what old friends talk about." Suspending a policy of shunning press interviews, Rand told TIME'S Sarah Button: "I am a philosopher, not an economist. Alan doesn't seek my advice on these matters. He can tell me more than...