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DIED. John Williams, 80, tall (6 ft. 2 in.), ever-so-straight, mustachioed British-born actor who inevitably played the impeccable Englishman (with just an arched-eyebrow hint of pompousness) in a career of more than 50 years; of a ruptured blood vessel; in La Jolla, Calif. His most famous role was the somewhat distracted, tenacious police inspector in both the stage and film productions of Dial M for Murder...
...himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key. "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable" on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may well match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that, smile as we may at its follies, or denounce...
Elway stands 6 ft. 4 in. tall and does not stand still. Even at a perfectly sculpted 202 Ibs., say the scouts, he has the footwork of a middleweight boxer. Besides Elway's passing ability, they admire his "escapability," a word with a hint of a shiver in it, evoking images of 280-lb. linemen and broken bones. Still, given his choice, Elway asserted he would never elect baseball as a safer course. In his heart, he was a football player who played baseball on the side, not the other way around...
There was more than a hint of embarrassment, though. The report provided details on eleven "principal flaws" in the preparation and production of the program. Among them: a failure to prove that there was a "conspiracy" to underreport enemy troop strength; failure to identify one of the sources as a "paid consultant"; "an imbalance in presenting the two sides of the issue"; and the "coddling of sympathetic witnesses" when the documentary was filmed. Also included in the report were transcripts of some interviews done for the show that displayed apparent coaching of a source by a CBS journalist...
Memos of 1965 meeting hint at company's fears...