Word: curtness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Huntley and Brinkley are off the air, their show abruptly shelved. Lawrence Spivak, Mike Wallace and Curt Gowdy are fired outright. Edwin Newman is still on the payroll but restricted to covering baseball. Howard K. Smith has been forcibly retired, and Eric Sevareid has been rusticated to the local sta tion in Keokuk. In their place are unknown third-stringers, providing bland, cursory newscasts culled from the wire services. Translated from the French, that is the situation U.S. televiewers would face this week...
...Curt Canning, captain of the crew and one of the six members of the group formed earlier this summer, said yesterday that the group will send out personal letters to the basketball team and to the part of the equestrian team which has been chosen. Most of the trials for the more than 500 Olympic berths will be held during the next two weeks...
...four with, composed of Paul Hoffman, Steve Brooks, Fritz Hobbes, Scott Steketee, and Andy Larkin, lost to Penn and Vesper Saturday. The four without, composed of Art Evans, Curt Canning, Cleve Livingston, and Dave Higgins--the stern pair and the bow pair--finished on Saturday behind Vesper and the Eastern Development Clinic working out of M.I.T...
...story of Pompidou's dismissal, one of the most extraordinary chronicles of recent political history, is herewith detailed by TIME'S Paris bureau chief, Curt Prendergast. De Gaulle had actually been thinking about replacing Pompidou for a couple of years. He had, after all, kept Pompidou's predecessor, Michel Debré, for only three years, then dumped him once Debré had presided over the unpleasant business of granting Algeria independence-despite Debré's own opposition to the idea. The roots of the present events were struck in the May revolts, when Pompidou...
...other hand, their release of 214 Americans for combat would invite a propaganda cudgeling from China, ever eager to berate Moscow for betraying its allies in Hanoi. In the end, both sides displayed an encouragingly sophisticated, fresh approach to defusing the danger. Next day, Thompson was handed a curt protest note. Just as curtly, the U.S. apologized and Flight 253A was set free, reaching Japan with a planeload of grubby, bearded troopers bound for Cam Ranh Bay in Viet...