Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Richard Nixon completes his first hundred days in office next week. Hugh Sidey, TIME'S Washington Bureau chief and former White House correspondent, gives his assessment of the President's performance thus...
...replaced by a new eleven-man Presidium, whose membership reflected the careful balance of the new political arrangement. Only two outspoken liberals remained, Svoboda and Dubček, who was given the largely honorary position of President of the new federal National Assembly. The hero of the liberals, former National Assembly President Josef Smrkovský, was dropped from the ruling group after his own admission of errors, which was published in the Party newspaper...
George Skakel was a self-made former railway clerk who never forgot his humble origins, and used to caution the family, "We could all be thrown out on the street tomorrow." He usually appeared on the estate in old clothes, and got a great kick out of being mistaken for the gardener. Mother was Ann Brannack, a huge (200 Ibs. plus), cheery, moonfaced Irishwoman who relished a joke even more than her husband did?except perhaps when Joey the ram, the family's pet goat, butted her through a glass door. Mrs. Skakel was in dead earnest about only...
...full hour and is called CBS Morning News with Joseph Benti. The format eschews such Today specialties as book plugs, chitchat among the cast, skits from upcoming musicals and reviews. It generally sticks to newscasting by Benti, offbeat stories by Hughes Rudd, interviews by Ponchitta Pierce, a comely former bureau chief for Ebony magazine. Benti, 36, and Brooklyn-born, sees his new assignment this way: "Our job is to create a new audience, or to take the old audience and make it aware of hard news in the morning...
...have an open microphone in a free-speech station," says Harold Taylor, a Pacifica director and former president of Sarah Lawrence College. "The cure for bigotry is not served by refusing to allow expression of views which we con sider reprehensible...