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...Walter Cronkite two-thirds of the way through a regular newscast last week, "is unusual for the CBS Evening News." Indeed it was. For the rest of the program was given over to an 8 min. 40 sec. report on the accuracy of a 1 min. 50 sec. news item that was telecast last November...
...papers. The Register is the old paper of Presidential Aide Clark Mollenhoff, but it seems that he did not prompt the Register on this matter. In fact, it may have been the other way round. After the Register quoted Pentagon sources to cast doubt on the Bau Me item, Mollenhoff wrote a memo lumping it with other alleged CBS News indiscretions. The memo was circulated around the White House and leaked to Anderson...
...replayed the Bau Me item last week, adding stop action, closeups and further background to refute Pentagon suggestions that supporting helicopters were not American, that the South Vietnamese troops were merely on a training exercise and that the prisoner may have been dead when stabbed. To debunk the last charge, CBS produced the knife wielder, Sergeant Nguyen Van Mot of the South Vietnamese Regional Forces, who claimed that he had stabbed the prisoner in self-defense...
Although not the most tumultuous item on the agenda, the GM question is the most pressing. Time has run out. The GM annual meeting begins in Detroit on Friday, and the Corporation members remain very much undecided on whom to side with or whether to take sides...
...also bobbing up in ads for durable goods that economy-minded customers might be expected to put off buying. Ads for Hotpoint appliances now boast that they "give you more than you pay for." The marketers of Toro's lawnfighter, a grass cutter promoted as a convenience item, now include in their ads the pitch that "feature for feature, dollar for dollar, it's the best buy you can make." In an appeal to the austerity mood of corporations, Cessna notes in ads for its new 414 twin turbo engine business plane that...