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...during an untelevised discussion Monday, Sadat said he would go before the Knesset, if formally invited. That night ABC news showed Jennings paraphrasing his talk with Sadat, and then cut to a taped interview with Begin, who offered Sadat a verbal invitation. "Cronkite took credit for breaking the log jam," groused ABC News and Sports President Roone Arledge. "We talked to Sadat first, to Begin first-we were first all the way." Arledge may be technically correct, but the CBS juxtaposition of Begin and Sadat answering questions by satellite from an insistent Cronkite was vastly more dramatic. Moreover, only Cronkite...
...putting Bert Lance through the twice-daily gauntlet of shoving reporters, the press might say in its own defense that each newsman was only responding to competitive pressures for a new picture, a new quote. Nothing personal, you understand: we do it to everybody who gets in a jam. But this tumultuous, superficial "reporting," which is about all the public ever sees of reporting, gives all journalism a bad name. And these are matters to keep in mind, even though Lance was right to quit, Carter was wrong in defending him, and it was Lance's own failure...
Grover Washington--Paul's Mall Dewey Redman Quartet--Jazz Workshop at 8:30, 10:30, and 12;30 Open Jam--Michael's Pub Joan Johnson Jazz Quartet--Ryles Tree of Life--Pooh's Pub Joe Venuti--Sandy...
...controllers sent to Oshkosh from other Midwestern airports to keep the participants out of one another's struts, the convention was not only the "world's largest aviation event" but also the world's biggest traffic jam. Chicago's O'Hare, the world's busiest airport, averages some 2,000 landings and takeoffs a day; there were more than 4,800 daily at Oshkosh. Since many of the planes were not even equipped with radios, the controllers were forced to rely on red smoke signals. Even those flyers with radios were not much better...
...first day as a parking lot attendant and Teddy Kennedy Jr. already had a traffic jam on his hands. The problem was not ordinary motorists, however, but reporters and photographers eager to see Senator Edward Kennedy's son at his summer job in Hyannis, Mass. Teddy, 15, and four or five other youths help passengers bound for the Nantucket ferry park their cars in the lot of the Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority. Salary: $2.35 per hour. The job is the first for Teddy, who had his right leg amputated in 1973 because...