Word: interview
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team has won their league championship; he invites them over for pepperoni and homemade wine. You've got a beef with the way city government is run? Al will talk it over with you, anytime, his place over pepperoni and homemade wine. You're a journalist looking for an interview? Come on over tonight, we're having lasagna dinner at city hall and, oh yes, there might be some special Vellucci brand homemade wine. It may not be the accepted panacea for all your political ills, but, in Al's mind, you can get pretty far with a smile...
Soviet embassy officials in Tokyo immediately demanded to have an interview with Belenko, who the Soviets insisted had made an emergency landing in Japan and now was being kept prisoner against his will. The Soviets charged that Japan was acting at the instigation of "a third country" and warned that a refusal to meet their request could lead to repercussions. The Japanese coolly replied that the plane was being held as evidence in the legal proceeding against Belenko and might have to be dismantled, part by part, to determine the facts of the case. After at least five separate Soviet...
...pace. "I keep three or four books going at a time," he says. He went through a biography of Teddy Roosevelt, a President he admires. He read Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns and eagerly welcomed the author a few weeks later when she came to interview him. Recently Carter polished off General Maxwell Taylor's new book on national defense, Precarious Security. He is savoring Justice and Mercy, a collection of Niebuhr's sermons, addresses and prayers that was sent to him by the theologian's widow...
...move, I can't breathe, I can't see, I can't talk. This is awful," muttered ABC's Ann Compton as she tried to swim upstream through a crowded aisle. Compton rose to the occasion, beating her colleagues to several good interviews, including one with Rockefeller just after the Vice President's scuffle. Trouble was, her producers chose not to use it, a common frustration for floor reporters. ABC's Sam Donaldson, unable to sell his control room an interview with one politician, quickly called in another possibility: "Hello! Hello! Here comes Senator...
...Betty Ford in a dead heat with CBS's Sylvia Chase, but gracefully let her go first. Even NBC'S Pettit, a raging bull at Madison Square Garden last month, was a model of courtliness, standing by patiently while Mudd of CBS beat him to an interview with former Missouri Representative Thomas Curtis. "The kind of abrasiveness that was customary and sometimes necessary in 1968 is out of place now," explained Dan Rather. "We're a little cooler headed...