Word: items
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blind item (since it is still giving low-priced previews), this work by John Guare (author of last year's "Muzeeka") looks promising. At the CORT, W. 48th...
...Faculty and the Committee on Admissions and Financial Aids should act immediately to ensure that scholarships will be administered on the basis of financial need only. The Faculty can do this by approving the needed scholarship funds to cover those on probation, by making scholarships in general an item of higher priority on the budget, and by removing restrictions on scholarships from the rules relating to probation. And the Committee should take advantage of the clause in the probation regulations which allows it to reverse its reduction of scholarships for students on probation...
...genuine American grain (who) has displayed a delightful sense of humor, a sharp wit, and a unique ability to bring laughter." For all is good intentions, this book reveals the man in the White House to be just what we knew he was all long--the worst item to hit the American cultural scene since plastic...
...York, Brinkley still digs out stories and checks nuances by phone with his old Washington sources, which are, as ever, at the Cabinet and committee-chairman level. But his true vocation is news writing, and he is indisputably the best in television. CBS's Walter Cronkite edits the items he reads. Chet Huntley will write an item or two a night that he feels strongly about. To Brinkley, unhappiness is having to read someone else's copy. Even when he does the whole show by himself, he taps out the script in the last hour or two before...
Come 3:30 p.m., the executive producer decides the "rundown"-the priority and time allotted to each item and which anchorman does which. Formerly, Brinkley caught the domestic-politics stories, Huntley, the Viet Nam and foreign. Now, with both in New York, jurisdictions are less fixed, though Brinkley customarily gets the change-of-pace "closers." Says Huntley: "I've killed more good jokes than any man alive. David could read the dictionary, and it would be light and frothy." The two men, while not close personally, have always meshed perfectly professionally. "We just sort of took each other...