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July 20, 1969 doesn't seem like such a long time ago. Most of the problems and personalities of that day have changed, but to those who grew up in the sixties, they were facts of life. The body count from Viet Nam, every night from Huntley and Brinkley, interrupted by cigarette commercials. Ghetto riots in the summer didn't make the news unless they were big ghetto riots (the little ones were expected.) July was too hot for big anti-war protests, though; demonstration season was late spring and early fall. Joe Namath's Jets has embarassed...
...first autobiographical flutters of that sentence from Heart of Darkness. After more than ten years as a seaman and officer in the British merchant navy, Conrad signed a three-year contract with a Belgian company to serve on river steamboats that plied the Congo River. "Like an empty Huntley and Palmer biscuit tin" was his description of boats like...
...HISTORIAN of the 21st century will have to go to his nearest Video Library and pull out the spliced-together copies of the Huntley-Brinkley report, of the CBS Evening News. He will need to watch the ARVN soldiers dangling from beneath helicopters on the retreat from Laos the way we did, watch G.I. s smoking dope in the barrels of M-16 s. He'll need to see the expressions on the children's faces as the cops in riot gear bash their friends. And to understand Richard Nixon, he'll have to study that damned upper...
...Television Authority. But audience measurement is an unrefined science in Britain, and the ITV'S news had long been considered by critics to be livelier and more imaginative than the starchy BBC, known in the trade as "Aunty." In 1972 Aunty tried to go trendy by installing a Huntley-Brinkley-type team of two anchor men, modernizing its set and spicing up its copy with breezy backstairs language. But when the old BBC starch was gone, what was left proved limp and ITV'S inroads continued...
...restive correspondents, most of them French or Japanese, left Saigon on a chartered flight, taking with them film and delayed dispatches. Last week the regime made another move against the foreign press corps. Authorities ordered three U.S. reporters-George Esper of A.P. and Paul Vogle and Charles Huntley of United Press International-along with Photographer Dieter Ludwig, a West German freelancer for TIME and CBS, and four Japanese correspondents to leave the country. Now only about 20 correspondents from abroad remain, including the last three Americans-A.P.'s Frances Starner, U.P.I.'s bureau manager, Alan Dawson...