Word: dan
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...Dan Rather smart alecks the President of the U.S. on nationwide television and is selected by TIME as one of 200 young Americans who can assume leadership roles. Many people have lost their jobs for much less...
President Nixon, meet the Rev. Daniel L. Pierotti of Georgetown Lutheran Church. He, too, knows what it is to fall under the critical gaze of CBS Correspondent Dan Rather, 42, who attends Pierotti's church when he is in Washington. Says Pierotti gamely, "He honestly tells me what he thinks about the sermon." Pierotti turned the other cheek recently and asked Rather to address the biennial convention of the Lutheran Church in America. Before an audience of 1,000 at Baltimore's Civic Center, Rather shed his hard-hitting image to offer a credo that required no instant...
...N.F.L. owners, of course, fail to see the analogy. Instead, they envision chaos in an open market. "If we do what the players want," says Pittsburgh Steeler Owner Dan Rooney, "500 to 800 guys would change teams every year. What happens to fan loyalty?" Others worry about competitive balance. "The rich teams would dominate," says Washington Redskins President Edward Bennett Williams. "You can't run a competitive league that...
...bill has not yet been proposed by any member of Congress. Rep. Dan H. Kuykendall (R-Tenn.) says he is "interested" in the bill, but has not made any decision on whether to sponsor it, according to a spokesman in his office...
...Dan Rather, 42. "Are you running for something?" asked Richard Nixon when Rather was applauded at a Houston press conference. "No sir, Mr. President," was the response. "Are you?" Such volleys have made Rather, who has covered the White House for CBS on and off since 1964, a nationally recognized combatant in the cold war between the President and the press. Rather has a nervy knack for eliciting newsmaking answers from Presidents and other potentates. Texas-born, educated at Sam Houston State College, Rather joined CBS in 1962, covered racial strife in the South and the Kennedy assassination in Dallas...