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...author; in Hermosa Beach, California. The first female staff writer at Life, Alexander, a liberal, became a household name for her verbal sparring with conservative James Kilpatrick on Point-Counterpoint, a segment on TV's 60 Minutes in the 1970s that was often parodied on Saturday Night Live, with Dan Aykroyd's snarly retort to Jane Curtin, "Jane, you ignorant slut...
There's no danger that the distant detonation will send the comet tumbling our way. The probe will be like a bug on Tempel 1's windshield, changing its speed by 0.014 in./hr. --With reporting by Dan Cray/Pasadena...
Whatever may be amiss, CBS News is doing more of it these days. It has gone all out for fast pace, assertiveness and emotion. Dan Rather has always been the most intense of anchormen, a tightly coiled man; if you want the news delivered low key, go to Brokaw, or to ABC's Peter Jennings, who seems the most reflective of the three. In crises, Rather's highly effective quick, clipped delivery heightens the drama. There he is, facing a television screen, calling in Secretary Weinberger or Secretary Shultz, asking "in brief" for a comment on Libya. They oblige...
...many factors go into the ups and downs of ratings. CBS's news-gathering staff is still regarded as the best in depth of talent. In the past year the network has been buffeted by a takeover attempt, an embarrassing libel trial and distracting ideological attacks. The gung-ho Dan Rather believes "all of this has made us tougher, better, more mature." Still, a little anxiety might not hurt...
...press spokesmen were open, friendly, disarming. Dressed like Dan Rather in woolen sweaters, they answered tedious questions with droll reasonableness and prickly ones with studied courtesy. They made lame but endearing jokes at their own expense, treating reporters with an unaccustomed deference...