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Though he spent most of his hour-long conference answering the intricate details of the complicity charged against him, he properly cast his case in terms of integrity. No one had yet accused him of a crime; even if he had ordered wiretapping, it was considered legal at the time. What was at issue, however, was whether Henry Kissinger was a man who told the truth-a test to which the American public has become extremely sensitive in the era of Watergate...
...directly from Tetley's twin-track career. Born 48 years ago in Cleveland, he took classical training, then studied modern dance with Martha Graham and Hanya Holm. In Europe since 1962, he has worked mainly with the Netherlands Dance Theater. There his most publicized work was Mutations, an hour-long essay on aggression that ended with the dancers literally stripped bare...
Nixon himself inadvertently contributed to the national jitters by suddenly calling Vice President Gerald Ford to his Executive Office Building hideaway for an hour-long chat on Friday. The summons perhaps was intended to show that Nixon was still in control of the Administration. A day earlier, Ford had reflected the deepening national anxiety by voicing his sharpest criticism of the Administration since taking office. He deplored the "crisis of confidence" that Watergate has created and?in a pointed reference to the transcripts?said: "And while it may be easy to delete characterization from the printed page, we cannot delete...
Early TV laurels went to CBS, which on Wednesday devoted most of its 60-minute Morning News and an hour-long special that night to the transcripts. In both broadcasts the network made remarkable use of clips from the Watergate hearings and past presidential speeches. Viewers were treated to videotapes of the President and H.R. Haldeman last summer denying that "hush money" had been authorized for Watergate defendants and videotapes of John Dean testifying to the contrary before the Ervin committee last June. Then Dan Rather read a Nixon remark to Dean from the transcripts: "Just looking at the immediate...
Commercial broadcasters have shown little interest in expanding the range of televised science programming, but WGBH is doing something about it. It has produced and, with other public television stations this season, is offering Nova, a series of innovative, hour-long shows aimed at filling the void between deadly dull "educational" lecturing and pop-science trivia...