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...first woman network correspondent to cover a national political convention for TV had a double assignment. She was supposed to interview Bess Truman and Frances Dewey and, while she was at it, apply their pancake makeup. Pauline Frederick rose from that humiliating start in 1948 to a distinguished career as NBC's United Nations correspondent. By the time she retired from NBC in 1974, only a handful of women had followed her into the influential, hotly coveted but obdurately masculine preserve of network reporting...
...PROTECT THE CONSUMER: ROBERT PITOFSKY, 47, of Georgetown University. Studied at N.Y.U. and Columbia Law. Worked seven years for the Wall Street firm of Dewey, Ballantine. Married to a personnel consultant; three children...
What is bound to impress Carter are the irrefutable signs of mushrooming Soviet military muscle. Recent testimony before congressional committees, the report by Senators Sam Nunn and Dewey Bartlett cataloguing NATO's weaknesses, and statements by West European leaders have all sounded that alarm. Exactly how much the Soviets are spending is a question that has long bedeviled the West. To begin with, the published Soviet military budget is far from a reliable guide. In addition, the Soviet Union's centralized "command" economy can order factories to sell military arms and equipment at artificially low prices. Thus even...
...nearly a decade, this has been NATO's standard scenario of an East-West war. Today, however, concern is mounting, especially among West Europeans, that this is dangerously outdated. After a recent inspection of NATO installations, Senators Sam Nunn and Dewey Bartlett of the Senate Armed Services Committee charged that Soviet forces in Europe could now mount a surprise attack, blitz their way past NATO's defenses and reach the Rhine in 48 hours. Reported the Senators: "Should the NATO alliance fail to improve its conventional war-fighting capabilities ... the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies soon...
...couple more crescendoes and a grand finale were yet to come. In the bottom of the ninth, Cincinnati outfielder George Foster threw out Denny Doyle at home plate when Doyle tried to score from third on a pop fly. In the top of the eleventh, Red Sox rightfielder Dewey Evans robbed Joe Morgan of a home run with a reeling, leaping catch that Reds' manager Anderson called the best he had ever seen...