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...Haldeman, who drew warm applause during his half-hour talk to the group, remained serious most of the time. He confessed that he is involved in no fewer than five private lawsuits arising out of Watergate and related activities. Yet he persisted in his firm defense of his old boss: "I have supported the President's position on disclosure of privileged material. But I have no doubt that when and if the tapes are made public, President Nixon and I will be fully exonerated." As for himself, Haldeman pledged that, "I'm very anxious to tell...
Later, he suggested that since normally there was a half-hour delay while the timer activated the back-up recorder, Dean's conversation might have taken place in that dead interval. When the length of the conversation was pointed out, Zumwalt suddenly recalled that the changeover timer was set to operate only six days a week, since a single six-hour reel could normally handle the relatively limited weekend conversations. That meant no back-up recorder takeover on Sunday if the tape...
...Friday, 9:30-10 p.m. E.D.T. Adam (Ken Howard) is an assistant D.A., and his wife Amanda (Blythe Danner) is also a lawyer, and the very thin rib is Women's Lib. At least that is what seems to have been intended in this half-hour comedy purportedly inspired by the 1949 classic Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn film of the same name. But the first two episodes did little to advance the cause. In the première, the woman lawyer was so emotionally shattered by having to spend a single night in the clink that she could...
...would like to extend the evening news to an hour, admits that the idea has had a cool reception from local CBS stations-which would lose a half-hour of profitable local advertising to the network. "It will come," Cronkite says of hour-long nightly news, but not, he thinks, in the near future...
...Cronkite himself. His recent 2½-month vacation touched off rumors that he was being eased out of the picture, or even that he was seriously ill, but Cronkite was back at work last week, only mildly diverted by the network hoopla surrounding his tenth anniversary as a half-hour anchorman. He did take time out, though, to talk with TIME Contributing Editor Paul Gray about the vagaries of televised news and his plans for the future...