Word: davids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first it was only a tiny speck in the sky. Then, as Astronaut David Scott peered through the window of Apollo 9's orbiting command module, the speck grew into the most ungainly manned craft ever sent into orbit. Said Scott: "You're the biggest, friendliest, funniest-looking spider I've ever seen." He was talking to the lunar module, known as Spider, and it bore two other astronauts who had earlier left Scott to guide it through space. By flying their ship through orbital maneuvers designed to simulate those to be used by astronauts returning from...
...Brinkley in Washington, the pair have made their dinner-hour news show the biggest revenue producer on NBC, except for the prime-time movies. That is undoubtedly one reason why the network made no point of the fact that at age 48 and after 25 years in Washington, David Brinkley has now moved to New York, where these days he co-anchors the program from the same Manhattan studio as Chet Huntley. Brinkley ended his quarter-century with NBC radio and TV in the capital because, he says, "I needed a change." He sought a new perspective: distance from...
...affects-you might even say, warps-your personality," he says in the familiar, syncopated rhythm that is the same off the air as on. "Oh, yes, I can relax. But I can't relax doing nothing." His estranged wife, former United Press Reporter Ann Fischer, maintains that David's work is "the one thing in the world he's really comfortable with...
...which anchorman does which. Formerly, Brinkley caught the domestic-politics stories, Huntley, the Viet Nam and foreign. Now, with both in New York, jurisdictions are less fixed, though Brinkley customarily gets the change-of-pace "closers." Says Huntley: "I've killed more good jokes than any man alive. David could read the dictionary, and it would be light and frothy." The two men, while not close personally, have always meshed perfectly professionally. "We just sort of took each other as we were, and we still do," Brinkley says. "For one thing, neither of us has any interest in hogging...
Watching Cronkite. As the afternoon wears on, one can tell the time by the edginess in the air in the Huntley-Brinkley newsroom. David is supercool, strolling occasionally from his private office to flip his copy onto the producer's desk. There are three echelons of editors, but none of them lays a glove on Brinkley's stuff. At 6:20 p.m., he heads for the studio three flights up. Huntley wears makeup. Brinkley never does. Generally, during the Huntley or filmed items and the commercials, Brinkley is still sandpapering his own prose and cutting it to size...